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One of the artworks that I admire is “Waves: The Abiotechnogenesis Collection”. The artist, Memo Akten finds his inspiration in nature and for this piece, his inspiration was the ocean. The ocean has existed since the beginning of time. Water is important for survival and life, people used the ocean to travel to new places, and it is where life started. I appreciated that Akten uses nature as his inspiration for computational art because it shows that nature has certain patterns and rules to it and that it follows its own function, even if that pattern can’t be immediately recognizable. When people think of nature, most people think of randomness, organic shapes that don’t follow patterns, and overall chaos, especially when it comes to the ocean. However, in reality, that might not be the case. Akten’s work reflects how nature isn’t just chaos. The artist used machine learning artificial intelligence algorithms to help create this piece. It is where AI predicts the output by given inputs. In this case, the input might have been data about wave patterns and the output would have been the waves in the artwork and the variations.
Memo Akten, Waves: The Abiotechnogenesis Collection (2021)
https://www.memo.tv/works/waves-the-abiotechnogenesis-collection/
