Mondrian/Rothko/Kandinsky

With the rise of machine learning, the fear that artificial intelligence will make art obsolete has been widely discussed. Some computer scientists feed rolls of poetry into a program, and ask the computer to produce its own rhyme. This raises the question, “What is art?”

Using Processing, a program that reads Java language and standardizes reproductions of digital art, I explored the same question in a visual sense. Creating different functions for Mondrian, Rothko, and Kandinsky’s signature styles, I created a program that generated varying degrees of their rules for art every time the user clicked.

I am intrigued in the idea of how user interaction with software programs can shift the meaning of art. Where does the line of authorship lie when the the difference between computer and creator are blurred?

Ruminating Poem

A visualization of Gertrude Stein’s “Stanza Two” from Stanza in Meditation and Other Poems highlighting absurdity.

Another project completed in Processing, I have split the user’s screen up into a grid and organized the lines of Stein’s poem. The words appear when the user’s mouse hovers over the corresponding box, yet a trailing shadow of the final phrase, “I could rather be rather be here,” follows the cursor movement.

User Input RGB

An interdisciplinary project between industrial engineering techniques and creative coding, this program attempts a visualization of the interaction between 3D and 2D design based on UX/UI inputs.

Arduino and Processing work together to translate the variations of the RGB 0-255 range.

Not pictured is the robotic light wired to the computer as the Arduino program is run, changing LED RGB concentrations to reflect the color shown in the Processing window.