New Genres

For my conference project, I wanted to add a personal touch to my work. Hence, I used my instinct and my studio background in painting and coded two portraits in static mode, coding each triangle in a different colour.

Grace Hertlein sought to digitalise nature. For her art work, she took inspiration from her natural surroundings. Eliminating the anatomical element from her computer art, she brought the natural element of art into her work. I experimented and recreated my…

Daly McGrath Several months before the start of the 2019 Fall Semester, I came across an account on Instagram featuring a person named Miquela Sousa, under the username @lilmiquela. Initially, she seemed to be just another Instagram influencer who posted…

In a report, Hertlein compared the computer art on display and creators present at the 1975 International Conference of Computers and the Humanitites (ICCH) and what was displayed on the 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. She uses the comparison to note…

Vera Molnár, as one of the pioneers of computer art, was really interested in repetition and changing her work one parameter one at a time. As a practice, I have several elements I wanted to experiment with repetition and randomness,…

Recently, I have been interested in sound performance that use interactive technologies. However, for this project I thought it would be interesting to practice the opposite idea, which is self-generated computer music. In the 80s, this was the common practice…

Vera Molnár approached her work through gradualism. She would change one parameter at a time and evaluate the aesthetic alterations. This way of creating is a smart way to understand the power of a singular artistic choice. I explored this…

Through brainstorming for a space for our Hijack, one of our first ideas was to reinvent the area formerly known as the Atrium Cafe, a Heimbold classic and much-missed coffee and snack source among faculty and students alike. Our next…

Going into this conference project, I really had no idea what I wanted to create. At the beginning of the semester, Angela and I had discussed where my interests laid both inside and outside of the class. In class, I…

This week we were tasked to respond to the thinking of George Nees, a mathematician who became a pioneer in computer arts. He started making drawings with the use of a plotter, employing it as a drawing machine and utilising…

The Grace Hertlein prompt was a fun one to recreate, to say the least. Out of all the prompts we’ve had to complete this semester, I enjoyed this one the most. This is mainly because Hertlein took inspiration from natural…

Some artists might start out their process toward a work of art with rules, with a grammar, but Vera Molnar tries to develop rules as she goes. These rules are derived through repetition, a process she calls “experimental methods of…

For this assignment I began with a for loop that rotates an ellipse. The ellipse is generate by incrementing a variable in the loop as well as through randomness. The sketch draws itself and continues to do so until the…

Project by Avery and Daly Our survey was based around the concept of Fall formal being replaced by team building night for future years to promote a stronger community on campus, and to compliment the rebranding of Sarah Lawrence College….

Vera Molnar is a very talented and unique artist. It might seem contradictory to call her talented when her work was essentially produced by a machine but I think the talent can be seen in the way she made the…

Modern generative graphic designer Georg Nees was a pioneer of computer art. One of Nees’ signature pieces is the Schotter (gravel in german). In this series he uses patterns, randomization, distruption and chaos to create a series of compelling digital…

When I initially started the Georg Nees project, I didn’t expect to find myself quite so emerged in the process. However, that quickly changed as I began experimenting and exploring the different ways to make abstractions. Watching the video from…

When examining Georg Nees’s work, I became perplexed with his ability to seamlessly alter his structures using ‘randomization.’ I love the thought of messing with set, orderly structures, however, I am usually a bit afraid to randomize aspects of my…

Claire Bronchick and Sarah Morse Our group survey dealt with the concept of having student spaces on campus.  We asked three main questions: How many times a day do you use screaming as an emotional outlet? Times a week? A…

By Isiah Taylor, Peck Trachsel, Allex Valauri When planning for this hijack, our group went over multiple topics concerning academic and residential life at Sarah Lawrence. While coming up with a brief series of questions concerning potential topics, our class…