FRAGES – GENERATIVE FRAGMENTS

Frages is a project born, during the lockdown. It is the fruit of visual explorations that mixes coding and graphic design.
It aspires to be a new way of creation that uses generative systems to enable the emergence of new behaviour.
The generative process has the unique quality to perpetually morph into an infinite number of variations which favors the spontaneous encounter of new shapes. It both guides creation and frees it from a preconceived final result.

Each visual we encounter is a “fragment” of the source code that generated it: if we were to execute the code again, countless new visuals would be created. This is why, in this project it felt essential to us to display the code in its raw form (computer language) along with  the “visual fragment” it originated. This felt natural to achieve complete transparency of the creative process.

The open display of the code, consequently, allows a direct access to the entire system from which the fragment was collected, and to its infinity of siblings.

With the physical prints of one of these variations, we are making a finite decision, a statement. It is a total contrast in form with the perpetually shifting original object with which you can interact and observe the never-ending generation of itself (changing up to 60 times per second!).

Frages est un projet qui est né à Athens, durant le confinement, il est le fruit d’une exploration visuel et technique. L’idée est de développer des processus qui laissent place à l’émergence, grâce à l’utilisation de système génératif.

L’utilisation du génératif oriente la création, tout en la libérant d’un résultat final anticipé et attendu.

Chaque visuel est un fragment du code qui l’a généré, “fragment” car ce même code s’il est recopié textuellement comporte une infinité de variations de ce visuel. Ainsi à travers ce projet Frages il était important pour nous d’accoler le code dans sa forme brut (language informatique) à son “fragment visuel” dévoilant ainsi le processus de sa création en toute transparence.

CONCEPTION : Cosa Mentale
REALISATION : Cosa Mentale
EXHIBITED : TwoThirds Project space - Athens (GR)
DATE : 2021

GENERATED POSTER SERIE | ONE VISUAL – ONE FRAME

AUGMENTED POSTER – ANIMATED VERSION WITH CODE

GENERATIVE LANDSCAPE SERIE – ACSII

UNIQUE USB KEY – WITH GENERATIVE CONTENT

INTERACTIVE MOBILE FRAGMENTS

EXHIBITION – MAY 2021

Credit Website | Cosa Mentale 2019