sketch_150709b

At the exhibition from February 21, 2018 to June 2, 2019

The video shows how the programming language Processing can be used to repeatedly generate an identical image in different ways: a black square against the neutral gray background that is typical for computer applications. The first algorithm that creates this black square consists of just three lines of code, and shows the simplest and most conventional way to program, but more complex, peculiar or abstruse algorithms are used thereafter, as are various programming techniques, prefabricated objects, points, lines and surfaces, all of which, however, ultimately create the same image.

»sketch_150709b« interrogates the meaning of code in relation to its visual output. What is the relevance of the way the result is produced if it is not reflected in the outcome? What significance is to be ascribed to that which is not visible? Does the subjective perspective change in the interplay between the visible algorithm as a program and the invisible algorithm in the square that is generated? (Mattis Kuhn)