Author: Hannah

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Nicole Aptekar is a digital artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who creates paper-sculptures, provoking deep questions about the world around us. Aptekar studied at NYU ITP, and has always strived to build a artistic-technical relationship with audiences, through mediums: musical synthesizers, painting, animation, digital art.

Aptekar’s work mainly depicts her dark anxiety/fear in a fictional landscape, complete with strong shadows, curves, and a black and white color palatte. After each piece is finished, she writes the moment the art represents- and an excerpt becomes the title. (Seen below)

I also appreciate Aptekar’s acknowledgement of the creative process, and her expression of the hardships she faced along the way. From creating a fire- touch sensitive version of popular arcade game “Dance Dance Revolution” (see below), to a “LED lit, fire breathing, collaborative music sequencing, cube tornado!”, she has experimented with a lot to get where she is today.

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In Stefanie Posavec’s piece “art.park.data” she combines the unpredictability of childhood experience and nature with statistical/graphical representation. Each child was given a “Raspberry Pi” device, which aided in recording various data sets in the park: temperature, humidity, types of plants spotted, sounds heard, emotions, and others. The children were then tasked to supply this data per each latitude/longitude coordinate in order to create the mural.

The artwork, a 32.5m long data visualization displayed for the East London Canvas, is impressive to me because it effectively incorporates an aspect of the human experience with statistics. It also presents the data in an aesthetically pleasing way, with complimenting colors and shapes. While data is often confined to graphs or charts, this artwork offers a new perspective into data presentations, encouraging the observer to connect with outside ideas more effectively.

Art.Park.Data in the East London Canvas

Kenneth Martin’s Chance and Order incorporates aspects of randomness through a combination of chance events and artistic decisions. In order to create each pair of lines, Martin draws numbers (two at a time), randomly from a bag starting counter-clockwise. I admire the pure simplicity of the piece, along with the concrete repetition of lines across the canvas. Chance and Order offers a new perspective of the scientific and artistic world through incorporating creative elements and those of mathematical probability.

The points of intersection on the art are also written and randomly chosen from small cards, and a line is made between each successful pair of numbers picked out. The title, “Chance and Order” also symbolizes the greater process behind the work, a product of random events and ordering procedures. I admire Martin’s ability to hand-draw so precisely, and create these nearly computer-generated forms of media in the collections.

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In the “House of Gods” by Adam Martinakis, he explores the supernatural balance between heaven and earth through 3D art. I admire the solid shapes and colors, light in juxtaposition with darkness, and Greek mythology influences. Each statue, depicting ancient gods, is crafted very delicately with the emotional intensity of a real marble figure. Adam Martinakis’ work revolves around the intersection of humanity and the unknown- through 3D image rendering, digital sculpture/video, and computer-generated visual media. I appreciate the ambiguity of his art, which produces a wide variety of interpretations. As a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts, and trained in ceramics/architecture in Athens, Martinakis utilizes this expertise in order to craft a new technological perspective on history. In the “House of Gods”, the art combines themes of realism and industrialism (through ladders, stairs), and mythical (unique textures, glowing artifacts, gods.) 

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Amay Kataria’s “Supersynthesis” artwork strives for a new form of connection through the unity of light and sound. I admire the interactive element, which allows visitors to first-hand control the wave, sound, and light patterns. Participants make edits in real-time, encouraging constant evolution of the piece, juxtaposing this innate action with advanced, intricate programming. The project assigns 24 pitches to 24 light sources arranged in leds across a physical wave, and Kararia intends to connect the audience with nature/eachother in this format. Through combining the interactions of all people with the website open, Kataria labels this event “communal computing” and as a new revolutionary method of social communication. 

Light & Sound Synthesis: In Conversation with Amay Kataria

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I admire Luluixixix’s art pieces because they exude a sense of humanity and beauty, yet are entirely Ai-generated. The color palettes are vibrant, and contrast well with the subject matter, creating an abstract human-like form/gesture. LuluxxX is a generative artist and software developer specializing in vibrant, feminine works and controversial statement pieces. 

Luluixixix works as a CGI/3d artist in the Paris Visual Effects industry, and started experimenting with Artificial intelligence technology in 2015. Her art combines the “glitch and pixel sorting” aesthetics using optical flow analysis tools to capture motion and convert to moving footage.

The creator’s artistic sensibilities manifest through the use of several different algorithms with “infinite combinations” as she states on her website. She also notes her attention to color manipulation in this piece, applying the technique to her other projects. Luluixixix uses a cli workflow, final compositing with Gimp Linux, and lastly, she builds all her own tools using open-sourced and custom code

Link to her work and website

https://www.luluixixix.com/pixsort#!