hyt-Looking-Outward-05: Nature and Algorithm

“Nature and Algorithm” is a 100-day consecutive project created by a multidisciplinary artist and programmer Liu Chang. Throughout the 100 days, she collected textural landscape photos and transformed them into dimensional, abstract productions through an algorithm she developed independently.

What was drawn to me the most was her consistency with her choice of medium, as well as her juxtaposition between the original landscape images and computer-generated “landscapes” — the latter one especially intriguing, since the transformation was applied with similar color tone, shadows, and even pattern, but the image is no longer the same, and only functions as a representation of the image. I was also curious about why the artist describes the project as “a question to the relationship between nature and AI.” Unfortunately, she did not mention the softwares and algorithms used for this project, but relating to this comment, I think she is inquiring for a line between authenticity and artificiality, and how how we can incorporate learned AI into reality but still different from reality.

You could view more of her 100-day work here: http://www.liuchang.work/#/natureandalgorithm/