Description
Investigating the historical techniques of Dada assemblage, photomontage, and aleatory composition, and translating them into computational image manipulation, video capture slicing, and modular pixel grids.
Key Concepts & Art History
- Chance & Indeterminacy: Chance Operations as developed by Jean Arp and Dada—relinquishing rigid authorial control to stochastic rules and physics.
- Modular Grid Systems: Analyzing Chuck Close’s Modular Grid Systems where local abstract cell marks aggregate into macro-scale portraits.
- Pixel Buffer Manipulation: Loading image assets, sampling localized brightness/color data (
img.get(x, y)), and rendering procedural glyphs or ASCII characters.
Core Coding Concepts
- Loading & parsing bitmap images (
loadImage()) - Real-time video capture & live canvas texture feedback (
createCapture(VIDEO)) - Thresholding, edge detection, and localized color quantization