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»Algorithmic Visualizations«
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© George Legrady; https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/algo2/algo2.html

Keywords

  • aesthetics
    • acoustic
    • affective
    • anamorphic
    • animated
    • anthropomorph
    • assembled
    • automated
    • autopoietic
    • collaborative
    • contextual
    • cybernetic
    • disgusting
    • distorted
    • documenting
    • duplicated
    • dynamic system
    • ephemeral
    • experimental
    • found object
    • generative
    • gustatory
    • hypermediacy
    • illusionary
    • immaterial
    • immersive
    • installation-based
    • interactive
    • intermedial
    • intervention
    • mobile
    • modular
    • multi-user
    • multiple
    • narrative
    • navigable
    • networked
    • olfactory
    • panoramatic
    • performative
    • polysensory
    • processual
    • projected
    • psychedelic
    • real-time
    • realistic
    • remediated
    • remixed
    • sculptural
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    • sonification
    • sublime
    • tactile
    • telematic
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      • Genetic Art
      • Transgenic Art
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    • Database Art
    • Digital Activism
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    • Game Art
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    • Installation
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      • performative installation
      • sound installation
      • virtual reality
        • 360° virtual walktrough
    • light art
    • Nano Art
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      • Happening
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      • video performance
    • robotics
    • Telematic Art
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        • metaphysics
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    • ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
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      • access
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      • error message
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      • agriculture
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      • ocean
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      • topography
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    • POWER AND POLITICS
      • authority
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    • RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
      • afterlife
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      • vision
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      • activism
      • border
      • capitalism
        • surveillance-capitalism
      • city
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      • community
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      • digital identity
      • diversity
      • entertainment
        • comedy
        • festival
        • game
        • mass culture
        • parody
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        • spectacle
        • toys
      • ethnicity
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      • food
      • globalization
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      • information society
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      • mass
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      • native
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      • participation
      • poverty
      • privacy
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      • racism
      • territory
      • unemployment
      • urban space
      • utopia
      • voyeurism
      • wealth
      • working class
    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
      • ambient intelligence
      • artificial intelligence
      • artificial life
      • biocomputer
      • blockchain
      • cybernetics
      • development
      • digitization
      • electricity
      • emulation
      • engineering
      • history of technology
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      • intelligent environment
      • invention
      • mechanics
      • military technology
      • mobility
      • nonhuman communication
      • optics
      • product design
      • production
      • robot
      • simulation
      • software manipulations
      • supercomputing
      • technophobia
      • telematics
      • telepresence
  • Technology
    • Display
      • Electronic displays
        • BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
        • CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
        • computer monitor
        • dome
        • Electromechanical Display Device
        • Electronic Paper
        • flashlight
        • Head-up Display
        • Headphones
        • HMD (Head-mounted Display)
        • holography
        • laser
        • light-emitting diode
        • lightbox
        • plasma
        • printer
        • projection screen
        • projector
        • robotic
        • speakers
        • VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
        • VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
      • Non-electronic displays
        • body
        • Book
        • easel painting
        • globe
        • house wall
        • inflatable structure
        • mirror
        • paper
        • sculpture
        • shutter glasses
        • sofa
        • Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
        • table
    • Hardware
      • camera
      • computer mouse
      • data glove
      • Joystick
      • MAC
      • Mobile Device
      • multi touchscreen
      • plotter
      • scanner
      • touchscreen
      • Video
      • webcam
    • Interface
      • Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
      • Biological Sensor
      • biometrics
      • Body sensor
        • Body Tracking
        • brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
        • breathing sensor
        • Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
        • Endoscope
        • eye scanner
        • facial recognition system
        • Motion Capture
        • positiontracker
        • retina scanner
        • Speech Recognition
        • step sensor
      • camera recording
      • electromagnetism
      • interactive media
        • Auditory User Interface (AUI)
        • Augmented Reality Interfaces
        • breath based communication
        • Internet of Things (IoT)
        • Ludic Interface
        • MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
        • Multi-Modal Interaction
        • tactile user interfaces
        • Tangible Acoustic Interface
        • Tangible User Interface (TUI)
        • Voice User interface
      • Non-electronic interface
        • bike
        • doll
        • furniture
        • plant
      • robotic interfaces
      • Soundgenerating device
        • Audiotape
        • keyboard
        • microphone
        • musical instrument
        • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
        • syntheziser
        • telephone
        • Theremin
        • turntable
        • voice analysis
      • virtual balance
    • Software
      • C++
      • CGI/Perl
      • CSS
      • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      • ISDN
      • Java
      • Linux
      • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
      • periscope
      • PHP
      • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
      • SGI Onyx2
      • softimage
      • software interface
      • Video
      • VRML
      • Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
      • XML
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Information
Cite
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Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “George Legrady - »Algorithmic Visualizations«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/algorithmic-visualizations.html?tx_vawiz_pi1%5Baid%5D=0%3Fkeyworduid%3D548%3Fkeyworduid%3D407%3Fkeyworduid%3D360%3Fkeyworduid%3D226&cHash=07c2698e7aa20413961b2c065c08eb31 (retrieved 2009-29-09). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {George Legrady - »Algorithmic Visualizations«}, url = {https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/algorithmic-visualizations.html?tx_vawiz_pi1%5Baid%5D=0%3Fkeyworduid%3D548%3Fkeyworduid%3D407%3Fkeyworduid%3D360%3Fkeyworduid%3D226&cHash=07c2698e7aa20413961b2c065c08eb31}, urldate = {retrieved 2009-29-09}
Technology
Method
Processing algorithms used to enhance or analyze digitized images
Descriptions & Essays
George Legrady 08-05-2023
Algorithmic Visualizations" consists of images created directly from mathematical equations that have their origins in image processing algorithms used to enhance or analyze digitized images. This approach consists of rule-based processes that integrate frequency modulations, adaptive algorithms, randomness and noise. When I first began to work with these algorithms in the mid 1980’s it became quickly apparent that I could leave out the referent image to be processed, and explore the aesthetic potential of the algorithms themselves. One can consider that these images are therefore visual expressions of the equations, shaped, and massaged as McLuhan would say, to arrive at new aesthetic forms.

As the sculptor George Rickey has pointed out in his book "Constructivism", prototypes of abstract, geometric generated images have appeared in many forms since Antiquities. Notable examples include architectural elements such as Roman bath floors, Islamic lattices, Celtic interlaces, and highly complex, extraordinary artifacts such as pottery, rugs and baskets produced by indigenous cultures worldwide. The mathematician Stephan Wolfram observes that repetitive and nested patterns used to generate ancient abstract images were attempts to see if simple abstract rules could represent the behavior of natural systems.

This ongoing project has evolved and been inspired by discursive debates concerned with issues of authorship, the question of material, systems based organizing principles, and industrial modes of fabrication and production coming out of minimalism and the conceptual art movement. From an art historical perspectives, I have revisited the aesthetic quality of 1960's abstract art based on mathematical models by François Morellet, Bridget Riley, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Frank and Vera Molnar, Agnes Denes, Gruppo N, Friede Nake, to name a few, whose work can be considered as historical precedents to current digital based media arts.
George Legrady: Algorithmic Visualizations, 08-05-2023, in: Archive of Digital Art
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