This is proposal that I sent off to Andrea and Simon for the catalogue of the Analogue is the New Digital festival in October...hope they like it!!!
Title: Pseudorandom
Pseudorandom is a series of autonomous drawings that have been produced by a mechanical robotic device. These generative images display the aesthetic qualities of digital code that allows a computer to act with varying degrees of freedom, choice and randomness.
These original pen and ink drawings attempt to visualise the process of pseudorandom number generation by creating a visual landscape and sense of physicality from the otherwise entirely digital nature of code, machine consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Similar to the way Jean Arp produced his ‘chance collages’ as a method of relinquishing control, the drawings of pseudorandom can be seen as a depersonalization of creative practice. By instructing a computer to make the important decisions of composition the drawings are experiments of digital spontaneity and irrational artistic creation. Acts of computational randomness and choice are merely a simulation – a pseudorandom process that originates from an arbitrary starting point. To what extent can this be described as a ‘random’ process may be addressed by the drawings of Pseudorandom, as it maps out a physical representation of a computers ability, or inability to think in a truly random fashion. Just as Arp’s collage ‘According to the Laws of Chance’ appear relatively ordered, (which suggests that the artist retained a certain degree of authority) these drawings are an examination of the contrast between control and chaos.
The drawings of Pseudorandom have been created by means of a robotic appliance that interprets and responds to a computer which is programmed to display colour in an apparently random order. The element of choice is given to the computer by means of a programmed loop that instructs the machine to randomly choose and display a colour on its monitor. The device that plots this event watches the screen using its color sensor, which in turn drives a mechanical arm holding a pen. The movement of the pen is dependant on the hue and saturation of the colour that it sees.
Title: Pseudorandom
Pseudorandom is a series of autonomous drawings that have been produced by a mechanical robotic device. These generative images display the aesthetic qualities of digital code that allows a computer to act with varying degrees of freedom, choice and randomness.
These original pen and ink drawings attempt to visualise the process of pseudorandom number generation by creating a visual landscape and sense of physicality from the otherwise entirely digital nature of code, machine consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Similar to the way Jean Arp produced his ‘chance collages’ as a method of relinquishing control, the drawings of pseudorandom can be seen as a depersonalization of creative practice. By instructing a computer to make the important decisions of composition the drawings are experiments of digital spontaneity and irrational artistic creation. Acts of computational randomness and choice are merely a simulation – a pseudorandom process that originates from an arbitrary starting point. To what extent can this be described as a ‘random’ process may be addressed by the drawings of Pseudorandom, as it maps out a physical representation of a computers ability, or inability to think in a truly random fashion. Just as Arp’s collage ‘According to the Laws of Chance’ appear relatively ordered, (which suggests that the artist retained a certain degree of authority) these drawings are an examination of the contrast between control and chaos.
The drawings of Pseudorandom have been created by means of a robotic appliance that interprets and responds to a computer which is programmed to display colour in an apparently random order. The element of choice is given to the computer by means of a programmed loop that instructs the machine to randomly choose and display a colour on its monitor. The device that plots this event watches the screen using its color sensor, which in turn drives a mechanical arm holding a pen. The movement of the pen is dependant on the hue and saturation of the colour that it sees.
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