Drawing Machines

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Work Title : BOW / BYRNE / DANCE Describe your object: This video is an MTV-style music television section from an alternate reality. I wanted to channel television segments where musicians introduced other music videos. Here, David Byrne’s interview is…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Scanner art is unique because of the ability to unfold objects into two dimensions with incredible detail. The fractal-like detail a scanner creates is a unique trait that allows any scanned image to be zoomed in on, creating multiple new…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

These pieces explore the meanings of regular imagery and objects through glitching. Over the course of this class thus far, we’ve explored different ways of corrupting and glitching videos and images digitally and with the help of machines. My images…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Work Title: Cute Red Disasters Describe your object: This is a scan of a book of Goya prints, a Japanese postcard, two kinds of bubble wrap, a lip liner, a pencil, two one dollar bills, and two plastic babies. The…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

Describe the object On my 16th birthday my mom and step-dad got me this cool set of wireless headphones that had my name printed on them. I immediately asked my mom if she could help me choose a case for…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

DESCRIBE THESE OBJECTS: The light and the dark talk playfully with each other. DESCRIBE YOUR MOTIVATION IN CREATING THESE OBJECTS: A lot of my motivation came from wanting to create unfamiliar patterns out of familiar materials, both physical and digital….

Drawing Machines: Pixel Labs

For my conference project, I decided to experiment with pixel manipulation in Processing. I began by scanning in images of dried plants at very high resolutions and cropping in on interesting textures. Once I compiled six images, I began experimenting…

Drawing Machines: Three-Pendulum Harmonograph

Before experiencing Sarah Lawrence I had never taken an art class or pursued my interest in creative endeavors. I confined myself to things I knew I was good at such as sports and school work. Refusing to step outside of…

Drawing Machines: Progress of a Wild Cycloid Machine

In the beginning I stuck to the example of Joe Freedman’s designs of a cycloid machine. My method was a sort of replication; I liked the structure, the satisfying and crisp results of the movement of the arms and the…

Drawing Machines: the ether

My conference project began with wanting to make a piece of art that was meant to be experienced with your eyes closed. I wanted to send light through patterned cut outs that would make shadows on people eye lids. I…

Drawing Machines: Found Machines

by Sonia Simon My found machine is the motor of a clock. I’m not sure where the clock went but the motor has lived in my basement for over a decade. On of those items that you’re always afraid to…

Drawing Machines: Found Machine

My found machine was a coffee urn. I began the process by taking the machine apart. Initial ideas about about what property I wanted to use in the machine was heat, and steam, from the coils that are layered between…

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

The objects appeared stretched, flattened, and twisted. I primarily used a metal wallet chain, which appears to have a liquid quality as it stretches through space. The scanner can make materials appear as though they behaving in impossible ways.

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data. One of my very first experiments under drawing machines was with glitch art. At first, the small changes I made didn’t seem…

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

During my academic career, never did I think I would be engaging in group assignments with machines but doing so has been a joyous exercise in the medium of the unexpected. It is most often difficult to anticipate what contributions…

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

To say that machines can not be a part of art, is to completely misinterpret the definition of art. I can not say what art is and what it is not because that would make me as hypocritical as the…

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

My first experience with drawing machines was glitch art. At first I slowly made small changes, observing and then reacting to them as a way of learning. I found that this approach was too boring and tedious. I was not…

Drawing Machines: Early Experiments

Based on the amount of control an artist gives up in attempting to glitch an image paired with the end-result of a computer producing a nonetheless beautiful product, it gives weight in my mind that there is an art of…