Tag Archives: algorithmic

Federico Diaz, “Geometric Death Frequency-141″, 2010

By admin | Published: April 20, 2011
Each one of nearly half a million black spheres, comprising a sculpture by Federico Diaz in the MASS MOCA, was carefully placed by algorithmically controlled robots. See below for a video on what this looked like…
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Patty Kickham, “Solo Performance”, 2011

By admin | Published: March 8, 2011
Patty Kikham’s “On Yellow” series of fractal paintings are unusually soft, fluid and deeply layered.
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John Maeda, “New3B”, 2005

By admin | Published: February 11, 2011
See John Maeda’s work, and a lecture about his thinking, at the amazing Adobe Museum of Digital Media
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Mehmet Akten, “Reincarnation/Iatrogenesis”, 2009

By admin | Published: September 7, 2010
  Working with the Rambert Dance Company Mehmet “Memo” Akten created software that tracks and responds to dancers’ movements, the result – in this “off-shoot film” – is hypnotic.
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Jean-Pierre Hébert, “Metagonal Spiral”, 2000

By admin | Published: August 10, 2010
A founding member of the algorists Jean-Pierre Hébert uses a magnetically controlled ball-bearing  to etch algorithmic patterns into sand.
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Herbert W Franke, “Lightforms 1″, 1953-55

By admin | Published: April 15, 2010
These early algorithmic visualisations by Herbert W Franke (in partnership with Andreas Hubner) were coincidentally created at the same time as Ben Laposky’s, employing the same technique of photographing oscilloscope traces
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Alex Dragulescu, “Pwslineage”, 2002-2008

By admin | Published: February 22, 2010
This peice is part of the series “Malwarez”. Comissioned by Messagelabs, Alex Dragulescu’s software creates virtual organisms in response to the effect that Worms, Trojans, Viruses and Spyware have on a computers internal systems. Below another program generates virtual buildings that respond to Spam 
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