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Jon McCormack

 

     
  • Australian-based artist and computer researcher 
  • Honours degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Monash University, 
  • Graduate Diploma of Art (Film and Television) from Swinburne University 
  • PhD in Computer Science from Monash University
  • Currently Professor of Computer Science and director of sensiLab at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

He is interested in generative art and design, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, visualization, virtual reality, interaction design, physical computing, machine learning, L-systems and developmental models. Since 1980 he has used computer coding as a creative medium for his works.

Personal Thoughts:

I find his work interesting in that he has a purpose in using coding in order to teach a visualized version of evolution in a way to understand how technology evolves as well as the literal meaning of evolution as a global aspect. In terms of most of his work is based on flora, plant form is the basis of evolution in a sense. 


Works: 

Fifty Sisters

 Fifty Sisters is comprised of fifty images of computer synthesized plant-forms, algorithmically “grown” from computer code using artificial evolution and generative grammars. Each form is made up of oil company logos.
The  title derives from the original "Seven Sisters", oil companies that dominated the petrochemical industry and the Middle East oil company in the mid-1940s until the oil crisis of 1970s.

Morphogenesis-series

Uses a sort of "digital DNA" to determine growth and development of a plant in simulated environments. 
Models the growth and form of selected Australian Flora. 

 

Other Artists:

Jeremiah Johnson

a computer musician and artist whose work embraces the politics of appropriation, destructive processes, glitches, and the tension between order & chaos.

Art in 8-bit and low-tech computer drawings.


Works: 

 http://www.datacorruption.org/index.php?/project/computers-cult/
http://www.datacorruption.org/index.php?/projects/unicode-cruciforms/ 

Jeremy Rotsztain (b. 1977 in Toronto, Canada) 

-works at the intersection of software programming and painting
-By incorporating computer code at the foundation of his practice, he manipulates digital media to synthesize hybrid forms.


Works:

http://www.mantissa.ca/index.php




 

 


 

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