E-Mail Erosion

By mackenziedarrach on November 20th, 2009, 10:15 pm 5 Comments

While browsing around Rhisome I found a piece created in 2006 by Etham Ham that I feel completely relates to our last project. This installation uses the internet and automatically creates sculptures based on e-mails / spam, which triggers the sculpting process. The styrofoam in the middle is biodegradable, and is sculpted by the eroder (moving sprayer) squirting coloured water onto the foam. I found this interesting because it is making a physical representation of the content found in the spam and e-mails. I’m not exactly sure what triggers the spraying / colour differentiation but it’s still a really interesting concept.

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Infected Images

By EmilyH on November 16th, 2009, 10:27 pm 5 Comments

This digital image series titled, “Infected Art” is by Alex Dragulescu.  These images are basically a digital representation of computer viruses, worms, spam email, blogs and video games.  Dragulescu created a computer program that looks for codes and uses algorithms to digitally “grow” 3D images.  This means he doesn’t physically draw or design the images.  The computer simply analyzes data codes and maps out the patterns.

Dragulescu is a visual artist who uses tradition and new media.  His work has been featured all around Europe and now North America.

I think it is interesting how Dragulescu says his art is “a surprise every time!” Also, these images remind me of a project I did a while back in high school with fractals.  It required me to create mathematical equation, then the computer transforms it into a geometric pattern.

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