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| Equivalents II, 1993
Shapes as such do not interest me unless they happen to be an outer equivalent of something already taking form within me
Alfred Stieglitz, 1922 Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise Jacques Attali, 1985 An interactive installation that explores the potential of user contribution text input as source for creating organic abstract images through a fractal synthesis algorithm. The title positions algorithmic design in relation to Alfred Stieglitz's 1922 Equivalents photographic project on clouds. Description The program uses the "2D mid-point displacement fractal algorithm
to generate tonal complexity and the initial tone control parameters
are set by the viewer's phrase, each text resulting in a particular
image. In addition, the program triggers further disruptions in
the visualization process when it encounters certain words in the
viewer's phrase that match those stored in the program's database.
The database contains words from the following sources: J.G Ballard's
"Crash", Michel Foucault's "The Order of Things", computer slang
words, gender labeling and identification, TV Talk shows vocabulary,
and those that describe positive and negative attitudes. At the
completion of the drawing phase, the program brings up other phrases
entered by previous viewers that have words in common with the current
viewer's text. Optional large scale images include the "News
Series" consisting of generated images produced from photo
captions selected from the New York Times and Die Zeit newspapers.
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