Angles Morts

Mutant Garden

The Painter's New Tools

Pattern & Presence

Asking for a Friend

Vertiginous Data

Proof of Work

E-State Realisms

Stedelijk Base

Generative animation inspired by the work "Quatre éléments distribués au hasard" by Vera Molnár from 1959.

"Pression des pairs" is french for "peer pressure". Each cell its rotation is based on the configurations of its neighbouring cells (its peers). This algorithm could be described as a combination of a cellular automata and a Markov chain. 

The grid is reconfigured in intervals, and scans from top left to bottom right, referring to the process of weaving, or writing text. Each time rotation completes, connecting cells take on one similar colour, creating groups.

Edition 3+1AP

Pression des pairs

Anni

Mutant Garden Tracer

Generative animated artwork, based on evolutionary programming. Dimensions variable, duration infinite, silent.

Edition of 3 + 1 AP

Mutant Garden Autobreeder

Algues Artificielles

Nested Exchange

Live visuals for performance with Bill Kouligas and Amnesia Scanner.

Lexachast

Online and edition of 2+1AP

Music by Bill Kouligas

Transplant

Ethereal Others (When No One is Looking)

When Adobe decided to kill its Flash Player in 2020, instantly a rich heritage of early interactive animations and net art disappeared from our web browsers (and our collective memory).

Among those this interactive animation which I made while still in art school around 2004. I believe I called it "Pseudo Psycho" at the time, in response to obligatory ceramics classes.

It's ironic how much smoother and perfect these animations rendered back then as computed vector graphics, compared to the ugly lossy & glitchy encoded video offered by Instagram now in 2022.

Pseudo Psycho

Markov was a Russian mathematician (1856 - 1922) who is best known for his work on chance. He described the so called “Markov Chain”: a simple method to calculate the probability of something new happening, by looking only at the current situation, and ignoring events in the past. This is sometimes characterized as “memorylessness”.

The composition starts off as a single square, filling the whole screen. This square can split into multiple segments, it might change its colour, or it might rotate 45°. Each of these changes in appearance have a particular chance of happening, purely based on their current state.

A square can subdivide into sub-squares, which in turn can split into other segments, and so forth. This could potentially happen infinite times. The property of nested subdivision is called “recursivity”, and is commonly found in software development, architecture and linguistics.

By defining only a few simple probabilistic rules the artist created a system that can achieve a very complex composition. Whereas Mondriaan might have made many studies and versions to reach one single best possible composition, this work instead embraces perpetual change.


Software