Looking Outwards 3 Generative & Algorithmic Art

“10 minuets of cold” is a image and a music piece by Jamy Sheirdan and John Dunn. In this project the image is used as score to make the music (click to listen to the music). The image is made using slit-scan photography (or what looks like slit-scan, there is no description on the work). The width is about 1000 pixels long when the height is 500 pixels. So, like reading music, the picture is read from left to right. Here is the full picture. I really feel like this project missed an opportunity because it is poorly documented. I really had to dig to find this project, not that I was looking for it. The artist interested me because of his essay that argues that cyberspace is a sub-class of space itself, and having that in mind changes the piece for me.

“Matter” by Quayola is a computer generated short film where blocks of geometric shapes are chiseled down to reveal an iconic sculpture, Rodin’s The Thinker. That subject was a nice choice, being that it was considered the bridge between classical and modern sculpture. The piece has the figure emerge and submerge slowly, bobbing back and forth, like it is stuck between two worlds.

Casey Reas made a very smart simple comparison between the artist who uses different materials like, leather, honey, blood, oil, steel, felt and so on, and the artist using software has different materials to work with like Java, c, c++, Python, PHP ect. Having that in mind, the Recode project (initiated by Matt Epler) had a different meaning. Its not just copying some work that was already done, each re-creation is its own unique piece, because it was done in a completely different material. Like the difference between a copy of a Mona Lisa painting and Andy Warhol’s Mona Lisa. That was my own little revelation. One of my favorites from the transcribed gallery was “Kube Series” by Mary Scahill based of of “Kube Series” by Klaus Basset.