A Digital Heap of Language
This work consisted of 3 digital prints & 1 static application which was projected under the 3 prints. The work reinterprets Robert Smithson's A Heap of Language in a Digital Age. Taking his original drawing and "eroding" away his work, one word at a time, I begin to reconstruct his argument in the digital age by placing them back into this Processing application, reconstructing his heap of language.
More about Smithson's work here: A Heap of Language: Robert Smithson and American Hieroglyphic
Detail of Smithson's Work here: Image Detail
The State I'm In
In this work, I explored the concept of a Finite State Machine, described by Alan Turing via his 1936 Publication, 'Intelligent Machinery.' The Processing IDE used to create this work functions similarly to a Finite State Machine, where the output (visual) changes according to state changes, refreshed via the draw method.
More About Turing Here: Wikipedia: Alan Turing
More About The Turing Machine, A Finite State Machine Here: Wikipedia: Turing Machine
100 Corporations
100 Corporations was an experiment in recognizing corporate logos, even when degraded into abstract representations. The logos were collected from the first 100 companies in the 2011 Fortune Global 500 list, then processed and blurred in Processing until they resembled abstract color patterns. Despite the degradation, many logos remained recognizable, revealing the subconscious impact of branding.
Stay tuned. There's plenty more where that came from.