{"id":808,"date":"2022-11-28T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/?p=808"},"modified":"2022-11-28T22:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:55:23","slug":"postdigital-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"POSTDIGITAL MATTER(s) 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Machine Drawing + Painting Perth, AU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This work is research in progress, examining the \u201cLoss of Control\u201d <\/em>in drawing and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The era of the \u201cPostDigital,\u201d is characterized by the collapse of distinctions between the \u201cnewness\u201d of the digital (now banal and ubiquitous), aspiring to create revolutionary tools and processes, and the return of the analog, now <\/em>as agency rather than (nostalgic) vessel . It is characterized by the opportunistic mining of multiple domains (digital\/physical, subjective experience \/ artificial intelligence), etc. towards new conceptualizations of line, space, form and materiality. PostDigital technologies and practices challenge designers to critically examine the changing conceptions of matter \/ material, transcending the physical \/ digital oppositions of an earlier generation. Within this context, the rise of AI, Robotics and related technologies, create both new speculative opportunities for design, and at the same time, posits the immanent \u201cLoss of Control\u201d of the designer, over both Form and Material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work presented highlights the increasing \u201cLoss of Control\u201d posed by the introduction of Genetic Algorithms and AI, replacing composition as a generative method, by incorporation of computational development of a \u201cseries.\u201d The work also interrogates PostdDigital imprecision and the \u201cinexact,\u201d <\/em>at the level of a physical, material medium, by choosing pigments, markers etc. as opposed to \u201cpixels\u201d as the medium of choice. This decision is not meant however, as a means to return to a pre-digital era, but rather, to explore the as yet undiscovered nuances of physical mediums in the age of robotics and computation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The linear drawings and patterns are coded with specific computational routines, calibrated for pigment load, flow rate, brush overlap, etc. The architectural line drawings are produced with readily available scripts incorporating GA\u2019s or \u201cFitness-Functions\u201d trending towards a goal or target set of criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Machine Painting using a custom brushstroke script.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This work is research in progress, examining the \u201cLoss of Control\u201d in drawing and architecture. The era of the \u201cPostDigital,\u201d is characterized by the collapse of distinctions between the \u201cnewness\u201d of the digital (now banal and ubiquitous), aspiring to create revolutionary tools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits-installations","tag-machine-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srplab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}