Sarah Yae – Looking Outwards 9 – Section B – [OLD FALL 2018] 15-104 • Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice

I reflected on Christine Chen’s Looking Outwards 3 post. I agree with Christine in that nature is actually way more complex than the artificial world, although many of us believe that the artificial world is more complex. Because nowadays, mankind is so much more familiar with technology rather than nature, we tend to focus on the complex parts of our world, than the natural world. Although we use our developments to help create the things that we need, it is true that nature does the process “naturally” and that is the amazing part about how much computation we have to do to even copy a part of nature, like shown in Iris Van Herpen’s dress. Herpen’s artwork was Decrypt Kymono, a part of the Data Dust series in 2018. She attempted to showcase different aspects of nature, like texture and patterns through an artificially made dress. It is amazing how she was able to bring together art, nature and technology under one dress.