A Jagged Orbit, 2024

This automated-art-system begins once a book, magazine, catalogue, or other printed matter, is placed within the bounds of its ‘reading area,’ where it is digitised through computer-vision. Some of the primary tasks assigned to this system can include calculating Newton’s n-body problem, tracking the artists’ tax receipts, and posting messages to social media.

The system attempts to chain these primary tasks recursively while mark-making across the semantic and aesthetic inputs it identifies on the page. These regions of interest may include figures / faces / objects / type / text / colour fields etc. Simultaneously, sensors in the machine measure data in the physical environment in which it is situated (movement, sound, light, human presence etc).

Grand Prix in the Tokyo Type Directors Club, 2024

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