Generated Rectangles (en)

(1) Rectangle generated by visitor

This participatory work considered whether the typical way of making gen art could be rethought by having others, rather than computers or artists, generate the random functions and algorithms that are the foundation of gen art. The contrast between "random numbers and arbitrariness," "AI and people," and "NFT and non-NFT" were also explored.

https://gyazo.com/3d4c36746954d06af4f520f3ed93b374

Visitors can select colors, sizes, etc., and generate squares from a dedicated website, which will be reflected in the venue when purchased as NFTs.

The site includes a purchase rule (code), and from the artist's point of view, NFT purchasers become GenArt, which is regarded as an autonomous system.

(2) Rectangle generated by the artist with (1)

In this work, the artist reconstructs Gen Art based on the data created in ①. One of the characteristics of gen art is "transformation," which makes it easy to visualize and map data. By creating four expressions from the same data and presenting them in parallel, the structure and appeal of Gen Art was demonstrated.

https://gyazo.com/6b0b37da0f1235f7ffbd1d682c83478e

It works like video feedback, using the previous frame's video and repeating the effect. Difficult to create with general video software.

There was a debate about whether Gen art should imitate real brushstrokes, etc., and I thought that even if I did, it would be interesting to see the media appear, so I aimed to create something that was a mixture of digital and analog.

The uniqueness of GenArt is its "emergence," and its representative algorithm is the cellular automaton, which deploys various rules of a binary 2-dimensional CA, like a life game, on a single screen. How to modify a certain thing is also a part of the fun.

It is three-dimensional, like a building, and the older it is, the higher it is. An algorithm that replaces the time axis information and color information that a quadrangle has with another element.

※ Some are optimized for screen size portrait 9:16, and some display is corrupted

Conclusion

This exhibition was a generative and exhibition operated by "viewer input data" and "artist's algorithm," and was an exhibition created in cooperation between the viewer and the artist. In addition, we designed a space in which viewers could transform themselves throughout the exhibition period by generating and purchasing squares, and explored the significance of the exhibition as a physical exhibition of Gen art. As for the future, since (2) has not been converted to NFT, we would like to offer it to the purchasers in some form.

code: genRectsExhibition.js

/* 本展をモデル化したコード */

function generatedRectanglesExibition(artist, visitor){

var exibhition = artist.getExhibition();

var nfts = exibition.makeNFT(visitor);

if(nfts){

var rects = nfts.getRectangles();

exibition.visualize(rects, projector);

exibition.makeGenArt(rects, 1 ,screenA);

exibition.makeGenArt(rects, 2 ,screenB);

exibition.makeGenArt(rects, 3 ,screenC);

exibition.makeGenArt(rects, 4 ,screenD);

exibition.visualize(rects, 1 ,smartphoneA);

exibition.visualize(rects, 2, smartphoneB);

exibition.visualize(rects, 3, smartphoneC);

}

}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1u3rlRB8I