Looking Outward 02

I found Erik Natzke’s NextFest Exhibit A video inspirational. I admire the crossover between digital and physical (paint) methods of creating art. He is inspired by the organic strokes of paint and incorporates that into his digital work and capturing the movement of line and strokes. It is exciting to see how many images he can make with this canvas and the music that goes along with the piece brings out the exciting movement even further. I suppose that the algorithm used in this piece is animation, statements we have started to use in class in the draw function, which also definitely uses color, transparency and shapes. Erik’s artistic sensibilities show through in his algorithms with the way he animates the strokes to first be out of the picture frame and then almost throw into the picture frame. Also the way he makes up the strokes in smaller transparent shapes adds to the organic aspect of the lines.