Monica Chang – Looking Outwards 12 – Project Priors and Precursors

For this final project, I want to utilize the generative landscape and sound to create an imaginative, colorful world. There are many artists who I will be thinking about over the course of developing this project but there are two that will be prioritized.

One of these artists is Maxim Zhestov who is a media artist who concentrates on film, installation and computational design to stretch the boundaries of visual language. He is famous for his digitally-rendered gallery designs which produce choreographed and calculated movements of elements and shapes using physics and computers.

Another one of the artists I would like to explore further along this final project is Mike Tucker who is an interactive designer and director who focuses on audio-visual exploration who co-created the app, Tónandi, which had a feature of a VR experience of a fantasy-like landscape.

Although Mike Tucker was able to create an environment that was able to interact with his audience, I felt Maxim Zhestov’s piece would have also been more interesting if the audience was able to interact with the visuals as well although fully computer-generated. However, both beautifully generate a new, fantastical world that fascinates me the most.