https://elputnam.github.io/SlidingScreens/ For this sketch, I was experimenting with moiré effects in addition to continuing play with the grid form. Emphasis was placed on the visual composition, contrasting qualities of motion, shape and colour. There are no interactive aspects to this sketch.
https://elputnam.github.io/PixelFlare/ I am continuing work with the grid, though wanted to create something visually different from the anxious grid. I experimented with placements of geometric forms. I ended up working with lines and squares, creating a curved shape to contrast the sharp angles of the linear flickers. Continuing with experiments in interactivity, I decided to …
https://elputnam.github.io/AnxiousGrid/ This sketch emerged from reviewing chapter two of Generative Design, which focuses on working with shapes. I adapted one of the sketches to create an anxious grid, also incorporating interactivity through hue changing as the mouse moves over animation from left to right. The grid as a form has fascinated me for some time, …
https://elputnam.github.io/AtTheEndOf/ The inspiration for this sketch has come from a number of sources. I have recently reconnected with a cousin on my father’s side of the family, whom I have not spoken to in decades. I learned he is a musician and writer, and is in the process of writing a story where people are …
https://elputnam.github.io/ViralTime/ I have been reading Aesthetic Programming Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox and this sketch is inspired by the “thobber” exercise in chapter three. They frame the exercise as a means of temperoral operations and computation: “We usually encounter the ubiquitous spinning icon while loading or streaming. It shows that a certain operation is in …
https://elputnam.github.io/AfterImage/ I am starting to engage with interactivity. Moving the mouse over the animation or touching the screen on an iPad or mobile phone moves the centre of the circles. The lattice forms to the right are generative, adapted from one of the python sketches I created for An Invitation. I am motivated by the …
This sketch marks another early attempt learning the syntax of p5.js. Like the previous sketch, I am working with vectors. The shapes began to take the form of abstracted butterflies made of stained glass, which I pushed further. I added the circles as ripples, but altered the hue to become more like a sunrise refracted …
https://elputnam.github.io/Metamorphosis/ This was one of the first sketches I made in p5.js. It is an adaptation of a sketch I created using python mode for Processing. I decided to switch to p5.js because the sketches are more web friendly, including the capacity to create sketches in a web editor. I also appreciate the ethos of …
The body is the database of lived experience. Body-based performance art functions as a means of considering this “data,” drawing upon it through actions and gestures that investigate, play with, and share the accumulation of experience in flesh. How then can biometric data function as performance art? Emergent involves the production of generative animations that …