LO: My Inspiration

One computational project that I found inspirational was “datum” by Norimichi Hirakawa. This project was an audiovisual installation built through pixels. This project was part of Hirakawa’s residency program at the Kavli IMPU, where he experimented with the boundary between the human’s perceptible and imperceptible beauty. The pixels of the footage is arranged in a 6-dimensional space. Using pictures taken by the artist himself, he turns them into a mathematical analysis of pixels that warps curve, gradiation, motion, and color. This project shows how technology and computational art can be used to challenge concepts such as beauty and the sublime while also bringing together science and art by representing it through the beauty in the nature of data. I find this project to be inspirational through the visual and emotional impact that the project holds to the viewer, leaving them in strict awe. The binary aspect of art and science in his work blends creativity and coding.

Norimichi Hirakawa: http://counteraktiv.com/