Looking Outwards 02: Generative Art

I am inspired by LIA’s 2018 collaborative project, Animal Imagination. This is a collection of fifty novel artworks which reflect the balance and beauty of nature through algorithm as digital paintings and videos.

The artist took inspiration from natural phenomena and incorporated the colors and forms into one overarching code base. Each work evolved as LIA tweaked this original code base to create new generative works. Each painting is unique, but they all bring an “alive” quality through the movement and vibrance; the decision to use generative media to explore the pulse of nature was executed perfectly in this context.

I think these pieces are not only very beautiful, but quite sensitive to texture and harmony as though LIA had painted them by hand. This ability to manipulate code and render these types of living and performative pieces makes them even more engaging had they been static works.