On a theoretical- practical/ experimental way research is done after the possibilities of sensor- and computertechnology for
artistic purposes. The essense of the works lies in real-time accomplishable computermodels; 'algorithmic constructions'
defined in code, which make possible that artificial processes and generative systems can excist, develop and function as
autonomous entities.
These artificial, purely formal, systems and processes generate behaviors which manifest in structures and forms in images.
The code is matter, the buildingblock for construction and forms the blueprint for the actual artworks.
The works are catagorizable in various classes:
1 ) Works in which form-collections and series of form-variations are being generated and shown as screengraphics or as prints.
By random or systematically changing the parameters of the algorithm the combinatorical space of the algorithm can be
explored, which results in static graphical images; line-drawings or three-dimensional forms.
2 ) Works which are continuously developing and whereby the unique temporary state of the real-time dynamic generative proces
is being visualized. The course of the process is totally defined by the generative model without influence from outside the
system; the algorithm describes the complete complex-dynamical process. This results in endless sequences of images;
form-variations which develop in a step-wise manner and generate organic forms and tempo-spatial constructs.
I determine the rules and artistic boundary conditions, the computerprogram excecutes these sets of instructions. The code
autonomously generates sequences of (video)images which represent a richness of variations which are not foresee-able
beforehand.
In the serie 'Hypergraphia', (Hypergraphia is an overwhelming urge to write. It is not itself a disorder, but can be associated
with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and mania in the context of bipolar disorder. Neurologist Alice Weaver Flaherty, in her
book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain, describes its relationship to writer's block
and to compulsive reading or hyperlexia. (wikipedia))
It is an attempt to control these mania or urge by automation. This results in endless variations of graffiti- and calligraphy
resembling forms.
The serie 'Reaction-diffusion', is based upon a mathematical model which simulates the interaction of multiple substances
based on two simple rules: a) local chemical reactions, whereby artificial substances(dye) react opon each other and thereby
transform, and b ) The spreading of the substances (diffusion) in an artificial substrate; These processes are taking place in the
realworld when we release a dye in a liquid, or is seen in aquarelle, in this model the characteristics of liquid are also being
modelled (with characteristics like pressure, viscosity etc.) which makes possible specific pattern formations; phenomena like
waves, interference and morphological segregation. In this specific manner (by modelling physical characteristics) abstract
organic images emerge, which origin and orgination is not directly obvious.
