Espiral de innovaciones

Spiral of innovations is a work composed in p5js. It is born from a circular, black and white base from which a black spiral of innovative lines extends. The latter, slowly and decisively, are managing to conquer most of the environment. As soon as you click, the colors are reconfigured, being completely opposite to the previous ones, in effect we manage to expand the same spiral in a new way, giving rise to a new space. However, the new space will not be revealed if you do not decide to see it, you choose the perspective.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Inspired by ̈Brief and disordered anti-glossary or dictionary of topics on electronic art ̈ (2001) by Jose Brea, ̈The work beyond the object ̈(2014) by Nathalie Heinich and the works of Herbert Franke, I developed a work graphing how technologies constantly advance, giving us new tools with which to experiment. These same tools are those that are constantly criticized and questioned, forming different paradigms.

My intention was to represent the basis of which technological innovations are presented to us, advance and are born in a spiral and progressively new tools to work without anything or anyone being able to stop it. As much as day by day, these conquer our daily environment, different paradigms are formed which we decide to listen to or ignore. A great example is conceptual art when it was initially rejected by art critics. We have the decision to expose ourselves and choose to listen to different paradigms to make a ‘click’ and find a new space of digital art. In a first paradigm, a black and white ellipse is seen from which a spiral formed by black lines emerges that conquer the screen. With a simple click the respective black lines are hidden and show a second paradigm from which white lines extend. Representing how our different perspectives change and manage to look at the previous base in a different way, modifying the image. Referring to Jose Brea in ̈Brief and disordered anti-glossary or dictionary of topics on electronic art ̈ (2001) ̈Only those languages, or domains of significant production, in which a critical exploration of their own limits is carried out -contribute productions that we must legitimately consider “art”.̈ The exploration of one’s own limits is reflected in a decision to dare to click. Citing Nathalie Heinich, the work beyond the object (2014) ̈An open work: far from being reduced to the material limits of the object, it can be enriched by comments, interpretations, imitations and even by the acts of vandalism that it may provoke ̈ being enriched by the interaction of the public.