Drawing by Numbers

Drawing by Numbers demonstrates the conversion process from an analogue life drawing to a digital drawing described in code. At a workshop at the Media Space in the Science Museum, London, participants could scan a recently completed life drawing for translation into a series of codes and images, and receive a printout. The work takes inspiration from the Universal Everything and You exhibit by Matt Pyke, which converts the human form into a reduced set of coordinates. In Universal Everything and You, points of a moving figure are displayed abstractly, leaving only movement to provide insight into the form it describes. Drawing by Numbers provides a static version of this. Key points create a crystalline, slightly three-dimensional representation of the figure in the original life drawing.