Going on Plotter Twitter was super interesting! There’s like a very unique sense of rhythm/repetition/texture inherent to the machine/medium that I hadn’t seen before in any other kind of artwork. I liked the ways people played with illusion, like overlapping primary colors to suggest other colors, and creating drawings with so many straight lines that there were implied curved forms (or so many ordered circles that there were implied straight forms). I think in a way most computing is really about illusion—the pixel matrix is not a continuous space, and floating point numbers render all decimals to the nearest approximation they can hold. It’s all about encoding information in the best way we can. Plotting these computed artworks felt really fun to me because these people were taking discrete, encoded approximations and shoving them back into a space with uncountably infinite possibilities (i.e. the blank page).
((Although, I would also have liked to see more attempts at generative objective artwork, like Lingdong’s fish. ))
56/100
Title: You know how it can be sometimes.I'm sorry?Wonderful.
Ink, 14 by 10 inches, 2021
Ink on paper #watercolor #creativecoding #plottertwitter #generativeart pic.twitter.com/rDOCa5I2Nd— Licia He (@Licia_He) September 2, 2021
This was one of my favorites from the tag. I just really enjoyed the interplay between the meticulously programmed artwork and the messiness of the watercolor. I loved the gradients that arose when different colors met and were still wet, and I liked the scratchiness of the white lines formed by the negative space between blocks.