One of the main themes I observed in the readings was that of experimentation as a key in creating dynamic plotter art. Last week, sweetcorn brought up a really good point in class about the tendency of plotter art to look a specific way (mathematical or realistic), and this was something that I kept in mind while reading the blog posts.
I really appreciated Licia He’s blog post in particular, because I think she emphasized the materiality of plotter art in a way that keeps me doubting it is plotter art in the first place. It also makes me consider human intervention as part of the creative process, because of the variations, colors that exist in her work. Her notes on the different papers and mediums she uses the works she chose to convey help broaden my perspective of what I think plotter art is.
I also thought that Matt Deslauriers’s run-through of the “patchwork algorithm” and other space-filling/recursive patterns was really nice, it makes me want to create it and then find ways to ruin it.
Lastly, it was cool to hear there is an Inkscape Axidraw extension.