Andreas Nicolas Fischer

Here is a big update about Andreas Nicolas Fischer's work, which presents beautiful organic CGI made using several generative tools, specifically for the project into the post called Brute Forced Method he used a python script within Blender3d creating an endless series of 3d still-life compositions, which it then automatically publishes on his tumblr http://x.anf.nu.

Some of these weird viscous creatures and reflective textures remind me of the living ones created by Yoichiro Kawaguchi back in the late 80's, which were created thanks to his well known technique GROWTH Model, a model based on growth algorithm, and who has been highly inspired by sea creatures. See more;

Skynet, 2012

"Skynet is a non linear animation about a global networked consciousness. It plays with the idea how a single entity could the perceive the world – from a satellite to a microscopic view. 

Full sensory awareness encompassing the entire world is rolled into one artificial organism communicating with itself in realtime."

Engineered Viral Strain, 2012 - II, 2013

Brute Force Method, 2013

"There are no efficient algorithms for many computer science problems. The simplest approach is to try all possible (or many) solutions until the desired outcome is reached. This is called Brute Force Method. I created a Python script that creates arrangements of intersecting digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation, similar to a traditional still life, but with no physical constraints. The HDR image texture used to create the reflections on the genometry was taken at my studio, placing the virtual setup in the real world."

Brute Force Approach [Studies], 2013

Arrangement of digital sculptures in front of a “frozen” cloth simulation.

Brute Force Approach II, 2013

Flowpi

Can't wait to receive this limited printed publication (100 copies) featuring the great algorithmic work by Jonathan McCabe, who has worked with Bryce Wilner to make together this piece called Flowpi, which title makes reference to a combination of a "flow" and a pattern forming system named after the pomacanthus imperator fish. The book contains thirty-one new compositions by Jonathan McCabe. To see more info and how this generative and organic texture really flows check out this previous post about Flowpi. See more;

The book's pages were printed by Sunrise Digital on Indigo Text 80# paper. It's  available in paperback only, it costs 20$ and it's possible to buy it here.

ionreq

ionreq creates generative forms, textures and particles through programming. One of his series it is called SmoothLife which is a generalization of Conway's Game of Life ionreq discovered while playing around with GPU programming. He explains how it work in this video. You can download the source code and Windows executables from sourceforge (links in his youtube channel). I specially like the 3D series of SmoothLife which show organic and colorful digitalized creatures moving and reacting each-other into a cube. See more;

Jef Faes

"Jef Faes makes particularly use of forms which relate to their surrounding space. High-technological photographs of scientific phenomenons are the basic principles of his work. These images to Faes exceed human comprehension: enlargements of matter on a microscopic scale after all result in emptiness, while on a macroscopic scale they actually visualize matter. Out of these findings he developped concepts of space stuffing, space connection and space bridging.

Jef Faes' installations are composed of elementary geometric forms, which were hollowed out by spherical modules. Driven by artificial manipulation these excavations are refilled by the building activities of honeybees. The hexagonal shape of honeycombs from a geometric viewpoint after all is the most effective form to fill up a circle. As a result Faes' sculptures at the same time stand for emptiness and matter, for both micro- and macrocosmos." - Verbeke Gallery. See more;

'Units' are small autonomous laboratories, which in function of further spatial exploitation can be placed both inside and outside, the contribution of honeybees remains essential.

Liquid Gold Random Player, 2010

Unit 01, 2009

Unit 02, 2009

Unit 04, 2009

Unit 06, 2009

Unit 9, 2009

Zachary Davis

Installations by Zachary Davis.

"Zachary Davis is concerned with the limits and difficulties of human cognition, evolved long ago as a “learning and pattern recognition machine.” An active member of Portland-based artist collective Appendix Project Space, which is known as much for intellectual engagement as physical practice, his current research explores the resonance of new visual technologies with deep-rooted neurological processes. A broader interest in the collision of the natural and the synthetic also informs his project. While this sounds dryly conceptual, Davis’s study finds appealing material form in an interrelated and carefully curated body of sculpture, moving image, and photography." - Becky Hunter. See more;

See all the installation here, read about the project here.

Rovers, 2011

Lowbeam, 2011

See all the installation here, and read about the project here.

Wendigo, 2012

See website based work here.

Luka Fineisen

It's really inspiring to see the organic forms and textures from Luka Fineisen's works.  Last month of March took place "Phase transitions" a two month solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, NY, where Luka presented ambitious sculptural works that explore moments of becoming, by using different materials for each work such as frost, foam, food, glitter, resin, viscous liquids and molten metal. Luka presented new and previous works, I enjoyed to see how the Organic Matter II generates and makes to flow that organic texture made of water and pigment. See more;

"Phase transitions" is a term used in thermodynamics to describe the shifts between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter. At a literal level, this is what Fineisen represents in her work - tipping points - the transitional moments when a substance changes from one condition to another. While playing with formal sculptural concerns of modernism and post-minimalism, she explores movement, evanescence and potential.

The work is dichotomous - scientific but sensuous, liquid and solid, monumental and fragile, simultaneously in the process of being created and destroyed. Fineisen is unafraid of creating something delightful, but fascinated by the moment when that allure becomes unnerving. When sensuality becomes dangerous. When attraction turns to repulsion. Fineisen shows us the exact moment when she loses control over her creation and the coinciding love and fear of that instant." - Hosfelt Gallery

The following works are; Organic Matter II, 2010 (metal, plexiglass, water, pigment, submergible pump) - Bubbles, 2012 (plastic) - Enough for All, 2012 (cardboard, cellophane, tape) - Melange I, 2010 (plexiglass, resin)

Check out more installation based works from all her carrier in this pdf.

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