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Who is the Algorithm?
Nov 23, 2021 · original
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The Story of Stompy
Oct 13, 2021 · original
Pass through Porter Square in Somerville; head south on Mass Ave; and turn right on Washington Street. Head uphill, along the brick sidewalk, and take another left. Now, look closely, and you might find a giant, six-legged robot. This is Stompy. Stompy is what remains of “Project Hexapod”, one of the most optimistic robotics projects of the 2010s. Led by three engineers from Olin College – Gui Cavalcanti, Dan Cody and James Whong – “Project Hexapod” raised $97,817 from 1,571 backers on Kickstarter in 2012. The pitch was simple: they’ll use the money to build a giant, six-legged, human-operated robot. Project Hexapod rewarded its backers with stickers, shirts, and of course, with the chance to take giant robot rides. Stompy was billed as an art object; as a platform for open-source giant robotics; and even as a possible search-and-rescue vehicle for natural disasters. Stompy fits right in
Drawing with Ants: Generative Art with Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Jan 1, 2020 · original
Why I wanted to draw with ants I wanted to make a piece of art that explores the complexity of software engineering. When I imagine a huge codebase, I think of its emergent complexity and tangled, inter-connected parts. Its overall shape, if it can be said to have one, emerges from the actions of many individuals. I thought about how to represent this, and one image that resonated with me was that of the ants’ nest. Ants are a perfect example of emergent complexity. No individual ant is an architect, but together, they build beautiful, complicated structures. Formicarium diagram. Source: Wikimedia Commons . I started by looking for information about simulating ants’ nests. Apparently there is literature about this, and it’s fascinating . But the trick was that ant nests emerge, in part, based on the physics of the sand and dirt they’re built out of – exactly how a particle settles when p
Software Still Lives
Dec 11, 2019 · original
I created a series of still lives using computer hardware to explore the abstract nature of software development. Software is, in my mind, merely a thing. It’s created by ordinary people, it has form, and an expressive nature of its own. Software can be convoluted, tangled, interdependent; or it can be orderly, rigid, or modular. However, code isn’t something we can see (or easily draw). It remains obscured to most people who don’t work with it. We rely on visual tropes to describe it: flying green text, men in hoodies, and so on. I want the viewer of these images to be able to consider software in a more objective way, as a programmer might think of it. By using hardware in these still lives, I invite the viewer to take a deep, close look at “code”, while also expressing something of its nature. Debian Server. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 40″x50″. Connections. Charcoal and pastel on pa

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