LO 06: Design 3-1. Data 4, 5, 6, 6, 6 by Hiroshi Kawano – 1964

Hiroshi Kawano was a Japanese philosopher who approached the field of digital art through philosophy. His generative artwork is based out of Mondrian using probabilistic methods of computation. In one of his works titled – Design 3-1. Data 4, 5, 6, 6, 6; also known as 2nd order color Markov chain, Kawano used a Japanese OKITAC 5090A computer which generated black and white print over which Kawano applied colors by hand. One thing that is interesting in works are the mutability of the Mondrian paintings through coding and randomizing the interrelationship of patterns. On the other hand, this makes me wonder about deterministic and indeterministic approaches.