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CHAOTICA

Digital art_ code drawings | 2017

 IAAC | Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya

Professor: Edouard Cabay

Collaborator: Martin Garcia Miro

"Freedom is obedience to self formulated rules"

-ARISTOTLE- 

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The following drawing series is a direct output of a digital research that explores the power of the protocol. The method used to create these visuals is based on a scripted code. Words in a specific syntax translates into varies line composition. This collection of visuals expresses the fine line between order and freedom and manifest the tension between the two. All drawings in the project were made with the same code manipulated by different alterations.

The code ,in its basic form, is based on an algorithm called "PERLIN NOISE" that mimics the movement of fog or water flow in nature. These 2d drawings are made with a form of two dimensional single lines that represents the traces of dotted particles, thus- the ink. This group of particles has a specific behavioral quality set, as well as the field they are moving across, thus- the paper space. The variables for the particles are: gravity, speed, amount and starting position. The The fields variables are: scale and degree of curvature. The code functions as a set of instructions to both. Once the basic code rules are defined the experiment begins. From that point on, the goal is to "hack" the code instructions to the particles behavior by trying to control their "random" movement in the field. Seeking for a minimal control to them particles future directions. That can be made with a range of equations that influence the behavior. That said, rabdomancy is still the dominants force in the field, enabling glitches of freedom with in the constructed order. Every time the code "runs" it reveals a different and unexpected 2d pattern that expresses the relationships in the field. Chaotic behavior in a controlled environment. The project seeks to capture these  moments when the environmental constructed rules are facing the random movement of its own inhabitants.  

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 "AUTO-MATIC"

Group Exhibition |IAACl M.ARC
Santa Monica Museum - Barcelona 2017   
Curator: Eduard Cabay

Collaborator: Martin Garcia Miro

EXHIBITION

​"Auto Matic" exhibition exhibited the experiment of three different drawing made out of three different protocols trying to mimic each others ink movement on the paper space and understanding the power of the protocol . 
Computer protocol - the code & the Drawing:
Using the PROCESSING software, the project is a visual sequence  of code  instruction records, exploring the relationship between vector field and a  group of particles. The drawings are created while  observing a group of individual particles traces immerging in to a pattern that acts as one  organized system The code creates a range of flow fields visuals (imitating fog or water flow) , and based on the random “Perlin Noise” algorithm. All of the drawings are made from  the same code with some parameters  modifications between each trail: the particles variables are gravity, and speed. The field variables are: scale degree of  curviness  amount of particles and their starting position. Every time the code runs it reviles a different and un expected pattern and  visual. The goal of the project is to learn and understand the drawings behavior in a way that  enables as much control as possible in the random process.
Machine protocol & the Darwing
In order to create similar texture and patterns as the computer drawing the translation to the physical world  is essential. Connecting the cnc machine to a drawing device. The device is a pen holder with elastic part that enables the pen a range of freedom with in its movement, in parallel to the device direction. The pen tip is fixed with magnet that react randomly to the surface  opposite magnets that are spread all over the board under the drawing  paper. Now just like the code loop, the machine creates line after line with as much repetitions as possible in order to receive the depth affect.  The project goal was to interfere with the natural perfect line that the  machine is creating with points of disturbance and randomness with in the predicted path.
Human protocol & the Darwing
In order to create similar texture and patterns as the computer the human protocol Connecting the cnc machine to a drawing device. The device is a pen holder with elastic part that enables the pen a range of freedom with in its movement, in parallel to the device direction. The pen tip is fixed with magnet that react randomly to the surface  opposite magnets that are spread all over the board under the drawing  paper. Now just like the code loop,the machine creates line after line with as much repetitions as possible in order to receive the depth affect.  The project goal was to interfere with the natural perfect line that the  machine is creating with points of disturbance and randomness with in the predicted path.
                                                                          

Machine drawing

100X80 cm

Computer drawing

100X80 cm

Human drawing

100X80 cm

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Machine protocol

100X80 cm

Computer protocol(code)

100X80 cm

Human protocol

100X80 cm

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