Creative Coding Lab

1. Lie canvas flat on floor.
2. Pour paint from the can above the canvas.
3. Let the paint dry. 
4. Repeat steps two and three with different colors.
5. Pour black paint and use a brush to draw strokes into the painting.
6. Use a brush to flick white paint onto the painting creating white dots.

COMPOSITION WITH POURING II (1943) Jackson Pollock

The Exquisite corpse technique is a technique where a whole drawing is completed by different people, meaning that one person draws before folding the paper and handing it to the next person. This means that as multiple people collaborate on a project, the ending piece cannot be only one person’s interpretation of the artwork. This allows people to strengthen their creativity while limiting themselves at the same time, since they are provided with other people’s drawings and have to work off their creation but can only contribute a certain amount of additions to the piece. These techniques could be translated to be used with interactive computer programs because it can encourage collaboration with others, which is a great way to be introduced to other people’s ideas. 

 

I agree with the idea that art should reflect the wider cultural environment of the time it is produced. Because of this, many Dada artists were able to develop techniques of chance, such as Arp, Ernst, and Tzara. An increase in scientific advances means that there are more ways to create art, especially with the concept of “chance-imagery”. An example of this is said by Brecht in the text, “works of great artists are products of the same complex interacting welter of cause and effect out of which came the results of mathematical physics”, meaning that discoveries of the time led to a concept of art, which in turn show where and what the technique is derived from. 

 

1. Throw a dart on a spinning globe with your eyes closed. The spinning causes the globe to move and not be stationary and closing your eyes prevents you from throwing the dart consciously at a place.
2. Add the numbers of the longitude and latitude of the place you picked. These numbers are different for every part of the globe and cannot be predetermined if you pick the place without bias.
3. Multiply that number by the population of the place you land the dart on. Since each place’s population is different, it will cause different numbers. 

 

https://editor.p5js.org/saramui/sketches/rzJfn0gDs

My approach to writing the program for my sketch was to simplify the shapes I had on my photograph to geometric shapes that existed within the program. I started with my desk, trying to play around with different pixel sizes for inputs until I had created a shape similar to my desk. This was when I discovered the function quad(), since my desk was not a perfect rectangle at the angle that I took my picture from.
My next step was to draw the lamp, which I had trouble with because of the shape of the base and the part that connects to the lamp. I figured out in my drawing that the base can be shown as a triangle on top of a trapezoid on an ellipse, which is how I ended up programming it. I had trouble with putting the shapes together, as I had initially thought that they needed to be lined up with correct coordinates and slopes, but I soon realized that I did not need to care about that, as each shape overlapped each other.
I then worked on my drawer, which became a problem for me. After coding each panel of my drawer, I decided that I did not like the placement of it in my drawing since I didn’t leave enough space for the mirror. I ended up moving the drawer multiple times, and looking for the correct coordinates to change was a little tedious.
Afterwards, I only had my computer, mouse, and mirror left, all of which went smoothly after the troubles I dealt with in the previous objects.
Even though I succeeded in completing this assignment and I learned many things along the way, I still prefer drawing on a piece of paper because the directions for what things to draw where are intuitive for us, but we have to manually type them for the computer to understand.