Generative Paintings
The following digital paintings and experiments in creative coding are based on original underwater photography and video. They were coded during my Fall 2021 sabbatical using custom JavaScript and the p5.js framework and printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art cotton paper
I am interested in computational and generative art that creates itself in real time based on user interaction. Generative art embraces randomness and chaos as organizing principles and attempts to create new ideas and forms through algorithmic processes. Such art is tied to complexity theory as there is often a large number of interacting parts that self-organize without any one thing (or person) being in absolute control. Any complex system will have elements of both order and disorder. Such complexity is also how nature creates itself on every scale, from the snowflake to the snowstorm.
I am fascinated by the beauty and mystery that emerges as the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together.
I am interested in computational and generative art that creates itself in real time based on user interaction. Generative art embraces randomness and chaos as organizing principles and attempts to create new ideas and forms through algorithmic processes. Such art is tied to complexity theory as there is often a large number of interacting parts that self-organize without any one thing (or person) being in absolute control. Any complex system will have elements of both order and disorder. Such complexity is also how nature creates itself on every scale, from the snowflake to the snowstorm.
I am fascinated by the beauty and mystery that emerges as the unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together.
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"Untitled process of pp2 mystw2 mp" Karl Cleveland, JavaScript
"Untitled process wcc4c" Karl Cleveland, JavaScript
"Untitled proces pfa 3e" Karl Cleveland, JavaScript
"Untitled process pp11 mletf" Karl Cleveland, JavaScript