This thesis conducts a series of visual experiments with a customized drawing machine. The machine as a generalized tool, together with the techniques and methods, established itself as an artistic medium. Adapted from existing electronic components and libraries, it investigates potential graphic quality and departs from the operational language of input and output. This demonstration contextualizes in a domain when time and intuition as embedded parameters, build up a set of vocabulary on electronic procedures conversating with the tool. Potentially providing intuitive accessibility for the technological workflows, it opens up the question of how designers today situate in a self-referential relation with technology in communication.
Click here to read : Explicit Image --- an exploration in media art
2018_Spring, Master Thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design
An 8” x 8” x 6” drawing machine projects animated vector graphics from rhino/grasshopper interface with an optional glitch
“The final display is based on the selective result after material testing. The sequential panels of 1/16” acrylics with the diagonal hatching grid from 1/4“ to 1/16“ spacing represent the most interesting result. Information of drawing is gradually appearing on the panel related to the density of the grid. In the following video, the demonstration in a dark room shows a very close effect as the drawing illustrated.”
“The performative aspect of the machine provides a range of deformation from input vector drawing(indicates in the central square), the one on the left shows the default projection. The rests are different stroke languages I got during fine-tuning the intensity of the electronic component. Compare to the default projection with the bright dot on each turning point, the others look gestural.”
“Certain delay happens to freeze part of the projected animation when it’s updating from frame to frame. This collage of the video of a figure walking up to staircase, in the left drawing in the middle row is a figure was split into 2 while some points on the figure were not updated on time.”