http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart Just another itp.nyu.edu weblog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The idea that an autobiography can not only be of a person but also of data, ideas, concepts or other inanimate objects is of interest to us. We are interested in looking at how certain ideas have prevailed on the web over the years. The generative book attempts to be a ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/the-multi-headed-hydra-a-generative-book/ The Mechanical Art Production Platform, or MAPP, is an art-making platform, consisting of a three-axis drawing machine attached via microcontroller to custom computer software. MAPP is a platform, and not simply a machine, by virtue of the fact that it was not designed with a specific aesthetic output in mind, but ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/mapp-mechanical-art-production-platform/ motionLife plays with the concept of how our movements affect the world around us. It shows an artistic representation of the scene in front of it, that constantly oscillates slightly. As the observer moves, the screen explodes in a shower of particles (representing how everything we observe is made ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/motionlife/ These painterly images document the love and obsession that people express for their pets ... in the form photographs uploaded to the Flickr website. For this project, I collected pictures of dogs, cats, puppies (clearly, a different species than dogs), kittens, hamsters, and bunnies on Flickr.com and generated new images ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/obsessions-flickr-pets/ Grass Type is a virtual mat of grass that sways to the stroke of the mouse and imprints characters as you type on the keyboard http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/grass-type/ Plink Jet is a robotic musical instrument made from scavenged ink jet printers. The mechanical parts of four printers are diverted from their original function, re-contextualizing the relatively high-tech mechanisms of this typically banal appliance into a ludic musical performance. Motorized, sliding ink cartridges and plucking mechanisms play four guitar ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/plink-jet/ sound bird is an audio reactive painting being living on the screen. Sounds from the external world boost its energy and its colorful trails creates abstract sound mapping of the environment http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/soundbird/ Five prints selected from a every changing data base of live images will be printed and exhibited. This work uses processing to juxtapose news images that are changed to black and white posterized graphics and headline texts / or descriptions from the NY Times. The work will exist as an ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/black-white-and-read/ This is a participatory installation piece in which users can draw a continuously growing landscape. The landscape is both geometric and organic--geometric in its use of simple shape primitive and organic in its resemblance of sensed user motion. Aesthetically we intend the tradeoff between these two properties to inform ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/energija/ Sound manifests the sensorial field in a manner that the scopic field struggles to achieve in certain ways. Due the omnidirectional nature of sound, (particularly in the lower fre- quencies) an immersive experience can be created in the sensorium of the subject. In a sense, sound can be ... http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/algorithmicart/sonic-topology/