{"id":74141,"date":"2022-10-09T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=74141"},"modified":"2022-10-09T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:20:14","slug":"looking-outwards-06-randomness-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/09\/looking-outwards-06-randomness-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Outwards 06: Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Artwork: Structure de Quadrilat&egrave;res<br>Artist: Duncan Geere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vera Molnar: Randomness\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/372579247?h=6a400b246b&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1006\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29-1006x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29-1006x1024.png 1006w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29-768x781.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29-1200x1221.png 1200w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-29.png 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\"><\/figure><p>The series of work I&rsquo;ve chosen is Structure de Quadrilat&egrave;res by Vera Mulnar, a Hungarian-born artist who many consider a pioneer of digital and algorithmic art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I admire this work because there is an architectural quality to it that I quite enjoy. These works feature a series of quadrilaterals drawn with ink on paper.<br>However, each shape contains a degree of randomness &ndash; corners are offset and then returned to their original positions, heights and widths are lengthened and shortened randomly (probably through either a general random function or through perlin noise). The shapes overlap, shift and move in a way that gives the impression of vibration. Despite being composed purely of straight lines and rigid shapes (no curves), the work is dynamic yet controlled and invites the viewer to explore the identity of a shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30.png 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-30-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\"><\/figure><p>Molnar&rsquo;s experiments with generative art predate the cokmputer,<br>inventing the &lsquo;machine imaginaire&rsquo; (ie. algorithms) follow a series of rules to create an artwork. After teaching herself the earliest programming language (Fortran), she fed punched cards into a computer which was attached to a plotter which moved a pencil or pen over a piece of paper. The discipline required to execute such a process as well as the intensity to even consider such an exploration in the first place is very evident in the final works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molnar is credited with saying: &lsquo;My life is squares, triangles, lines. I am mad about lines&rsquo; and upon viewing her work, one can only agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/vera-molnar-1\">https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/vera-molnar-1<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/spalterdigital.com\/artists\/vera-molnar\/\">https:\/\/spalterdigital.com\/artists\/vera-molnar\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork: Structure de Quadrilat&egrave;resArtist: Duncan Geere The series of work I&rsquo;ve chosen is Structure de Quadrilat&egrave;res by Vera Mulnar, a Hungarian-born artist who many consider a pioneer of digital and algorithmic art. I admire this work because there is an architectural quality to it that I quite enjoy. These works feature a series of quadrilaterals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/09\/looking-outwards-06-randomness-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking Outwards 06: Randomness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74145,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141\/revisions\/74145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}