Category: LookingOutwards-09

Alien Bonsais by Chaotic Atmospheres

http://chaoticatmospheres.com/alien-bonsais

The looking outward that I chose to respond to was Selina Lee’s week 5 post. The project that she cited was Alien Bonsais, and was made by Chaotic Atmospheres. I thought the 3D modeled plants looked beautiful. The artist did an amazing job of making them look as if they were from another world. In addition, I would have to complement Chaotic on his/her choice of color for the plants. Each model has a small amount of a bright color to make the images pop. One critique of Chaotic’s work that I would have is the background that they used. They used a plain white back drop, and I though it would have looked more interesting in a surrounding environment.

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Random Number Multiples by Marius Watz and Jer Thorp
Original post by Hae Wan Park

https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/vvzxkb/random-numbers-screen-printed-generative-art-nyc-event

This project is awesome, like Hae Wan mentioned, because it is a combination of digital processes informing a handcrafted, physical output. One thing I would like to add to the commentary is that coding is also a craft. It’s neat to think about the processes that make up each piece. With coding, the interaction with the computer is minimal and restricted to slight hand/finger movements. The print process affords many rich interaction because the tools require fully body control. But this does not mean that one cannot inform the other.

The posters by Watz and Thorp are generative examples of pseudo-random algorithms that “simulate” nature. The simulation im taking about is that many of the patterns people see in nature have an element of randomness: rain drops, sand, etc. The contrast between the clear artificial form of the surfaces, made up by the random lines is fascinating!

I found Hamza’s week 7 post about Santiago Ortiz’s (from Moebio Labs) visualization of Twitter connections. I agree with Hamza and Ortiz’s opinions that “data visualization is most effective not in the form of static charts and graphs, but as fluid, moving pieces of art”. There are certain types of information that should be visualized in a bar chart or pie chart, but when it comes to trying to visualize connections between subjects, it cannot be done in a numerical way. What’s interesting about the web about conversations between people at twitter is the fact that you can kind of imagine the personalities of people and the type of people they converse with. This may be because of common interests. Hovering over the circles with the person’s photo will show a blurb about the person.

For this Weeks Looking Outwards, I am going to be looking at Scott Snibbe who is an Interactive Media Artist, researcher, and an entrepreneur. He is one of the First who works with projector based interactivity wall.

According to Scott Snibbes Website project ” Cause and Effect ” (2004) records viewers’ movements in silhouette as they simultaneously displace the recordings of previous viewers. When the movies re-play on sliding tiles, only the viewers’ movements are shown, giving a sense of autonomy to actions that were actually determined through interaction with the prior recordings. “Cause and effect” is a common translation for the Buddhist term Karma, which dictates that all human experiences, however minute, are the result of their own prior actions.

Since we have worked with projection and looked at artist that uses silhouette in Children’s museum, I think it was really interesting who originally used this type of method.