Maths And Art: Generative Art Project. Contextual and Conceptual Statement
Unsurprisingly there aren't many physical generative art shell sculptures out there. There is a lot of digital shell art, (particularly nautilus) and symmetrical tiled shell artworks but it's difficult trying to find any kindred, physical shell artworks created through a system, like mine.
When other people view my sculpture, to them it looks like something that is just randomly covered in different shells. To me, my sculpture symbolises how something can look completely random from the outside, but every facet of its being is determined by probability, and how chance events are received and manipulated by personal influence and a degree of decision making is needed to form a reaction and establish overall impact.
"Handmade generative art is still quite different than other handmade art where the artist is making intuitive design judgments from one moment to the next throughout the entire construction process." (Galanter, 2003). While I was making my sculpture I was always thinking about how each particular iteration of my system would affect the design as a whole and the end result.
"The scope for connecting chance and generative processes to create complexity is as vast as nature itself... Explicit awareness of the interaction between stochastic and generative processes in nature facilitates us in making links to human creative capabilities and endeavours." (Dorin, 2013). Chance didn't limit me in this project, it enabled the clarity and focus of my creativity.
References:
Dorin, A. (2013). Chance and complexity: stochastic and generative processes in art and creativity. Proceedings of the Virtual Reality International Conference: Laval Virtual
Galanter, P. (2003). What is Generative Art? Complexity theory as a context for art theory. GA2003–6th Generative Art Conference
