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Project 4

The subject matter for my final project was the relationship between physical and digital. I wanted to continue to explore the technical aspects of digital art this time focusing on 3D printing and how 3D scanning or digitization works. I constructed the idea of repeatedly printing and scanning a simple object to see how the relationship forms. Much of my research wasn't on the artistic side but more so on how certain technical aspects of 3D prints and digitization is accomplished.

I found something very interesting but not at all surprising. As the object I chose which was a 1x1inch cube, was scanned and printed it began to lose then drastically lose the sharp details of the cube. This is interesting because it can be interpreted in many ways, which is what i believe makes some art so good. The immediate interpretation comes from the technical side, which is at each iteration a loss of accuracy happens for a multitude of reason largely stemming from inconsistency in the surface of the 3d printed object and the quality of the digitizer. This is a very clinical interpretation as is expected from somebody with a very technical point of view.

The second and likely more common interpretation would be the ‘artsy’ way of saying the above. It would be that there is a loss of ‘something’ when translating media from digital to physical and back again. But this isn't even the most interesting part of the relationship, although the cube like structure is lost, a very abstract and much more interesting shape is born with only vague semblance to a cube or any structure with a flat face whatsoever.

Something that really inspired this piece was my growing fascination with the advancements in fabrication. If I had described this piece to somebody 10 years ago they would have said I was insane. But now we are pushing the boundaries of what can be done while creating things, personally believe digital media has laggy been a two demential medium, screens and prints. However I think in the near future we will see hybrid installations working with 3d printing and VR where an object could be 3d printer to obtain the form, then placed in augmented reality to provide surreal texture for said object. This advancement harkens back to the loss of the sharp initial physical object that was initially created and shows the process of it shifting and moving towards something more organic and interesting, purely through the process of digitization.

widefork

With this piece there was a few concepts I wanted to explore, in large they are thinking as movement, uncertainty, and the uncanny. Talking about thinking as movement was something that struck a chord with me because in computing there is very very little physical movement but underneath the still cover of a desktop case electrons are creating millions of high and low voltages across thousands of transistors creating all of the digital realm. I wanted to explore the idea that even if no physical movement is visible there can still be ‘movement’ in the form of processing or thought. The second and third things this piece talk about are uncertainty and the uncanny, a problem with the visual stillness while this processing is occurring is the user is often uncertain of what is actually happening ‘under the covers’. Is the computer performing operations and just taking awhile? Have I done something incorrectly to create an infinite loop? Will the program ever halt? The last of those questions is actually a famously unsolvable problem, but it is this uncertainty that brings an uncanny feeling. At first the viewer of this piece feels maybe it will change? As the piece goes on you can see the thinking of the viewer change, from maybe it will change to I don't think it will, and as time passes the viewer becomes more and more certain that the piece will continue as is forever. With this said there is always that nagging feeling that maybe if I watch for one more blink or wait for one more minute something different will happen. In the case of uploading this piece to Tumblr it removes part of that uncanny feeling because the viewer can likely gather its is a GIF. If I was to do this piece again I would write a program that loops for approximately an hour or two, then after halting immediately calls itself again. That is, the piece would stay the same for most of its display but for a fraction of a second once every few hours a flicker of something different happens, just to remind they viewer they don't ‘know’ what is happening, they can only speculate.

Nowhere close to actual image quality

rand206.eps

With my piece rand206 I wanted to talk about the process of randomization in computing. Much of glitch art is seen as ‘random’ or some say it finds its beauty in the lack of control of the artist has. However neither of these are really the case when dealing with forced glitches specifically through the use of software. It is true that when ‘glitching' the outcome can be seemingly random; but this only stems from a lack of understanding for the system. In reality nothing that happens within the ecosystem of a computer is truly random, if you could recreate the steps exactly then the computer will without a doubt recreate the exact same outcome. This sounds very negative which is not the intention, I simply want people to realize that what is happening is not ‘random’ or not some will of the computer creating the art. If I draw a parallel to painting, ‘glitching' a photo and getting some unexpected outcome is similar to throwing paint at a canvas and getting unexpected results that way. With a deep understanding of the computer system you could precisely glitch a photo to render the exact outcome you desired. Much like with a deep understanding of the fine arts you could use paint to render the exact outcome desired in that case. The important take away is that nothing on a computer is random, and the lack of control of an artist in a system is purely a choice of the artist and only enforced through the complexity of the system itself.

variation in line weight really does it

#random glitch

getting more colourful

progress pic 1 of my computer learning to make art

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Long boarding in the Gallery

This is what I consider the most successful experiment and I added a black background and rotated it to be upright.

This is yet again the same projection but done on the anatomical skull that was shown as a black and white earlier

This is the same projection process however done on something called a conical spiral then I took a screenshot of the corner of the projection

This was created with the same process described below however after loaded into illustrator the vectors were scaled down to a very very small size to create this starburst effect.

This is the same projection process as described below however I also used something called the facet normal (its a vector perpendicular to face formed by each set of 3 triangles).

I used the 3 values that represent this vector as the RGB values for the 3 vectors that make up that facet.

this is the same projection but with less data points on projected onto a different 2D plane.

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