Función zeta

Grayscale canvas with ellipses that visually represent a formula of the mirrored Riemann zeta function on which you can interact by bringing the cursor closer, generating random shapes in relation to its movements.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The work is conceptually based on representing the mathematical symmetry of the Zeta function in a static way, at the moment the cursor enters any sector of the digital canvas, ellipses will begin to be generated at the same time that another series of ellipses are drawn following the movement of the cursor, making an allegory to the randomness of human interactions, implying that by producing an initial disturbance in a system (the system being the work), an unpredictable result will be generated. The artists on whom aesthetic and conceptual references were made were Herbert Franke and Ben Laposky. Laposky mentions in his publication “Electronic Abstractions” how science and art can be combined to produce visual effects of strange beauty. Both artists are characterized by making visual experiments with tools used to observe electrical signals that gave rise to generative art.

The concept of allegory mentioned in the text “The Avant-Garde Work of Art” by Peter Bürger was addressed, fragmenting the element of human interaction in the movement of the cursor. In turn, notions from Nathalie Heinich’s text “The Paradigm of Contemporary Art”, taking what is statically visualized as the initial object, a trigger that induces subsequent interactions which will result in the conceptual idea of ​​the work.