Author: Connie

I admire the project named Supermassive Blackhole by Nika Maisuradze because of the way they created the feeling of 3D even though it is just a 2D image. The details in this piece to create the illusion of a black hole actually being there are really well done. The color schemes incorporated into this piece are also put together nicely to make it seem surreal and 3D. The highlights in some parts creating emphasis on things help create movement within the piece as well. I know the Nika used the software called Blender and Blackmagic Design Fusion. The feeling of a black hole that Nika wanted is really shown with the way the atmosphere and the background are transparent in some places and just opaquely black in others.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/k4l5Qn

I think Ryoji Ikeda’s The Planck Universe is a project I admire because of the vivid contrasting colors of white, black, grey, and red. The number of details in this imposing large-scale audiovisual installation is phenomenal. The small blood-red pixels help make an emphasis to the audience about the concept of Plank length. The piece makes the person looking at it seem like a part or fragment of the cosmos in the monochromatic background filled with abstract red speckled pixels. Using code and sound, he creates visual abstract motions to release his artistic point of view and ideas that avoid a philosophical perspective so that the audience is able to have their own opinions and experience.

This project is something that I find inspirational because of the movements that it has and the way the colors are used to create depth in this piece. Linden Gledhill, the photographer of this piece, used high-speed cameras that reflected off the moving water which change the motions of the waves. The light that is reflected helps change the color of the waves. The vibrations were the cause in helping the wave patterns to shift, and depending on higher or lower the frequencies the more complicated the patterns turn out to be. I suppose they used the camera to be able to record the wave changing. The artist uses his sensibilities in this piece getting inspired by Michael Faraday’s study on Faraday Waves to be able to focus on the different shapes and colors that were formed through just the pattern of water forming on the surface through the effects of vibrations on it.

I admire this project because of the depths and detail it contains with the use of only one color and shape. The number of layers that this project has creates the sense of depths and shades of red because of the overlap of different red circles. She used generative and computational systems, and her primary material is coding. She also likes to combine the use of traditional art with the aesthetics of algorithms and thinks the translation between art and coding is like a conversation. Her fluid concepts against the formal written coding to generate the precise images are repeated until she is satisfied with the final artwork. In her conceptual art, she likes to characterize it with minimalist and simple qualities like the many red circles that are layered over and over again in this artwork. She likes to focus on the translation of her conceptual thoughts and creativity through computations to create the abstract forms, movements, and colors in many of her artworks.