thoughts

Last semester, my work involved discovering and summarizing patterns and mechanisms in different things. It is the ‘logic’ part of ‘conditional design’. Based on this experience, I believe that learning coding would be beneficial as it can help me quickly determine rules, allowing me to invest more time into the process.

When it comes to methods of investigating, my reference is the Game of Life. Therefore, this case is almost an immediate response for me. In the Game of Life, each cell can be either black or white. I am aware that there are other visual styles that involve limited possibilities for each cell, such as ASCII. One of Karel Martens’ works maintains the visual style of ASCII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

https://martens-martens.com/portraitsSeoul.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

One image in 99-Variations-on-a-Proof resonated with me and made me realize that this is what I want to pursue! Even if it’s just the interplay of colors, it allows me to experience the beauty of the universe.

This type of pleasure is almost physical rather than mental. It reminds me of a piece in a recent exhibition at UVA, where the artwork combined sound and visuals (or light). It brought me a natural joy, as if I were observing people dancing to music on a grassland. This joy is an ancient genetic response, rather than an aesthetic pleasure tied to specific cultural associations.

I believe that the correlation of different types of information is more likely to evoke this physiological pleasure. As Zach Lieberman stated in a speech, the goal of his work is to elicit involuntary admiration and make others exclaim ‘wow’.

practice

https://www.uva.co.uk/features/chromatic

https://zachlieberman.medium.com/daily-sketches-2016-28586d8f008e

copying