Zero One is a code-based generative video programmed by Raven Kwok and sound by Mike Gao. It was programmed and generated with Processing with minor edits in Premiere during composition. It consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.
I really admire that within any still shot, even within repetitive patterns, each design/part looks different or unique from each other. It gives the entire video a more organic/natural feel to it, instead of being super cookie-cutter.
The project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.
The colors, shapes, and the motion graphics I feel are the areas in which the artist has taken control of and used their artistic sensibilities to adjust the project towards what they want appealing and attractive.
The order in this project is the similarity in shapes; the repetitive usage of circles and lines through out the entire video, and similar actions within a scene (e.g. the slant of all the images, or everything moving downwards). The disorder in the video are the specifically different forms each shape takes (size, color, each pixel movement). Each circle is sized a little differently, and the placing of, say a line through the circle, varies each time. This is the disorder of the artwork, but because it is placed in an orderly fashion / balanced order, it achieves effective complexity.
by Raven Kwok / July 5, 2018