LookingOutwards – 06

Wilke is a biologist who became interested in abstracting representing his studies using t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (T-SNE) that allows his data to become 2D and 3D artworks. Wilke’s artwork, Eternal Connection (2022), uses randomness to generate forms that are all different, yet follow parameters of his code that allow them to appear similar enough to one another to be recognized as the same type of project. This collection, like many of his previous, is used as a learning opportunity to explore and expand his computational abilities; for this reason, his works are informal and playful compared to the strictness of his data collection. Most of his works, like this one use circles, dots, and spheres to generate images.