Week 13- Human Algorithm

 After giving myself some time to reflect on what I'd already made I found myself automatically creating these drawings. Whether grounded in inspiration or an ingrained algorithmic human mentality, these pieces took on lives of their owns, as if growing in nature or being procedurally generated by an algorithm.

I have been looking into the work of many generative artists over the past few days/weeks and have become intrigued by the algorithmically-generated works of UK based artist Nicola Lorusso. Lorusso has developed algorithms that create veil-like drawings that are based on thousands of lines built on top of one another. Whilst completely computer-based, these pieces feel as if they're trying to reach out of the screen/frame, making an attempt to claw their way back into the outside world and integrate themselves within nature.

This idea of the generative has obviously been a recurring theme throughout this project but I have now realised that generative art doesn't necessarily mean digital art, or art that has been made on a computer in any sense. What if I was the computer and a set of tules was the algorithm? How would the outcomes differ to the digital? Does this still count as algorithmic?

Attached are two examples of these drawings. While not the most detailed or refined work they are a perfect example of the inbuilt algorithmic layout of the human mind and discusses these intersections between digital and natural. The idea of the controllable uncontrollable is brought up within these pieces; deciding to start a drawing one way and it turning out a completely different way. Why is this? Why does this happen?

For the first time in a while I am feeling inspired. These small, potentially insignificant drawings have filled me with a plethora of ideas and inspiration regarding where this project can go. Aesthetically I find the pieces interesting and inviting to the viewer but I feel that more attention should be drawn to the process as well as the final product. I feel excited about where this could go, I can see it becoming a performance, man becoming machine or machine becoming man.