Muestrario de movimiento y texturas

Work made in P5.js, sample of wave frequencies that produce sensations from the movements of the lines and textures that are drawn on the canvas, taking as aesthetic reference the works of Grace C. Hertlein

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

A sample of movement and textures takes as its main reference the work “City painting” by Grace C. Hertlein, from the superposition of different textures that vary frequency and density but maintain a visual criterion, an ethereal interweaving is formed with freer areas and others densely populated and loaded with information that demands a slower reading due to its multiple layers. At work This is seen in particular in each texture that is randomly generated, each one has a composition unique and practically unrepeatable, sometimes with several layers of reading since its internal lines produce movements that are in a second layer compared to the most notable ones that are generally on the margins top. Programmed in P5.js and strongly inspired by the text “the conquest of ubiquity” by Paul Valery, this work opens up the possibility for us to experiment with a visual system that continually creates moving images that cause us strangeness, indifference, calm or an overwhelming sensation Due to the amount of information, just with a click or touching the screen we generate a new sequence, as the French writer and philosopher once dreamed of. On the other hand, this work explores the role of the artist and of the viewer since it is necessary for the latter to get involved with the work so that it acquires the character for which it was conceived, the artist creates a system but the “spectator” is the one who chooses the texture and sequence that he wants to leave on the screen and for how long he does it, in some way, thus the work It does not lie in what is eventually being shown or in the support on which it is being displayed, but in the relationship between the system created based on code and the no longer “spectator”.

Literature

VALÉRY, Paul. (1960, 1999). La conquista de la ubicuidad (1928). En Piezas sobre arte. Madrid: Visor, pp.131-133. (DAA: 10m)

• HEINICH, Nathalie. (2014, 2017). “La obra más allá del objeto” en El paradigma del arte contemporáneo: estructuras de una revolución artística. Madrid: Casimiro, pp. 95-119. (DAA: 39m)