Anna Carreras

Anna Lucia

Aaron Penne

Generative Abstraction and Beyond PART III

In collaboration with EXPANDED.ART

Discs

Discs is a generative curated project. It is an exploration of the generative medium and its intrinsic characteristics. It observes how abstract systems can evoke memories and life experiences.nnDiscs (the word for vinyl records in Catalan) relates to records visually and explores the idea of phonograph records being a medium having their own characteristics and their crackling sound.nCan we push the generative medium to find it's particular and unique characteristics and reveal them visually?nnGenerative algorithms use a lot of randomness, as the ending of the lines and arcs in Discs; generative uses noise, as used in the background of the artwork, the visual crackling, we could say; a lot of loops, and algorithmic systems.nnThe system behind Discs places elements scattered on a grid. Each element then, looks for it's neighbors. If it's not isolated the visually links to them.nAn allegory of our life, society and relations. Our need to build connections, to relate to our closest ones, our necessity to build paths, paths that constantly and sometimes randomly change, paths that diverge and grow, creating clusters and long trails.n