Final Project - Repetition
The final project was created using Photoshop: multiple layers of repetitive art created from Alchemy: a software which utilises noise samples to generate random, yet at the same time, repetitive lines. The images were compiled and animated, so that the final project is on an infinite loop – repeating itself with images that are paradoxically repetitive in their creation (multiple mouse strokes in alchemy) yet also nuanced in their difference to each other.
The work was developed from a series of 3 experiments which play with digital manipulation and the creation of an image – from Photoshop and images created in alchemy.
Within alchemy, the artistic license has been partially surrendered to the program – such that the true ‘creator’ of the work can be questioned. Is the art created by an artist still their art when parts of it has been randomised and controlled by a computer program? When the images were experimented with in photoshop, the end result is still unknown and dependent upon the program such that the end result is indeterminable by the creator, but pre-determined by programming and software.
The work seeks to illustrate the capabilities of digital media as a platform to create art – that would otherwise be difficult to do by hand. The machine is therefore, a medium of creativity.












