Sean Meng – Looking Outwards – 2

Chang Liu’s “Central Park, face to a tree.”

Artist Chang Liu’s Wild Growth, is a Processing application that generates abstract artworks from data gathered from live videos. She employs a live camera feed that “sees” colors when positioned toward natural environments, pictures, or human subjects. In turn, her software “paints” the colors into quick-generated portraits that blossom out of paint drips, splatters, and brush strokes. What I admire about this project is it embraces the uncertainty of robotic generated image and give it the control over the the painting or artwork that is produced. And by capturing the characteristics of these drawings, the artist give new meanings to the computation generated images and transfer them into the actual substance such as “the trees in Central park” or “snares”.