This week I was mainly focused on gathering inspiration for a project that would challenge myself but I still felt was achievable within my current (quite limited) coding skillset. I wanted a project that still fit in with what I typically focus on conceptually in my other work; human idealism and relation to the material world, relationships and connections, and reciprocity. I also work a lot with explorations into audio, so I knew I wanted my project to have a strong audio component.
I wanted to make a program that created random organic shapes that the viewer would have to interact with and connect to in some way. I wanted it to get viewers to look introspectively as they interacted with the piece and consider their relationship to the code and by proxy, to computers.
At this stage I am still working out what exactly this will look like, but I’m hoping through research and experimentation this project will start to form itself. I’m interested in the experimental process leading me to a piece that speaks to my concept. In a way, I am hoping that the process of writing this code will be inextricable from the piece itself; that through my learning with the computer I am able to display my own meta-interaction with it.
Here’s a page of notes I was using to start to conceptualize what the piece was going to be.
