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Wirescapes
1.0 | Virtual Sculpture Interfacegenre: net art, generative art, code art
media: Flash ActionScript
released: 2003
Wirescapes is an exploration of the machine as conduit to the art idea. The user interacts
with a Virtual Sculpture Interface (VSI) to create digital “action paintings.” Dynamic scripts
generate infinite forms and fleeting moments of beauty and chaos. Wirescapes presents
opportunities for the viewer to see the creative process differently and capture what is in the
moment.
Wirescapes 1.0 is an interactive virtual sculpture and action painting tool. The viewer relates
with various shapes—polka dot, ball, box, paint squiggle, fragment of geometry—to control the
substance of the creative expression, including object and background color, orientation,
spacing, velocity, direction, form, canvas size, and transparency. A click on the canvas
captures a still image.
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Exhibitions/Installations/Awards:
2005 Thailand New Media Arts Festival (MAF05) | Bangkok
2004 Festival International de Linguagem Electronica (FILE): Invited Artist | São Paulo
2004 Machinista | Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art | Glasgow
2004 Prix Ars Electronica Archiv | Code The Language of our Times | online
2004 WebArt Project | Prohouse| Montenegro
2003 Artnodes Selection | online
2003 Rhizome ArtBase | online
2003 Soundtoys | online
2003 runme.org | online
2003 HyperX Online Gallery at alt-X | online
2003 Group Show | Dairy Center for the Arts | Boulder
Using the same actionscript to create a diverse set of images inevitably points back to Duchamp and his readymades. Duchamp often referred to the tube of paint as a readymade. Today, net art's readymade is the script -- whether an actionscript, javascript or Lingo, in the end it comes down to making a choice.
-- Eduardo Navas - netartreview