Autocolliders

‘Autocolliders’ is a series of computer generated, manually curated, digital artworks of line-segment poetry, entirely made with javascript and SVG string manipulation. The algorithm consecutively examines intersecting line segments and occasionally eliminates overlaps, resulting in a sense of scale, movement and flow, as if the pieces are all part of a larger system.

Some visual references of the artwork can be found in abstract art: nonobjective or nonrepresentational art, in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays little or no part — elements of form, color, line, tone, and texture. The image architecture also involves concepts beyond the visual domain, such as rhythmical cycles and repetition that can be found in sound and music, or randomized memory access and chance operations of different stable and unstable media. The latter can be found in a wide range of cultural references from corrupted software or hardware devices used in experimental glitch music, to the varying possibilities of the arrangement of linguistic elements in concrete poetry.

The composition of the colors was influenced by patterns and systems that can be found in abstract textile pieces from the Bauhaus, they also inherit from the soft minimal worlds of Japanese lithographs and other oriental prints, among raw, reduced and schematic color variations of electronic imagery and computer aesthetics.

‘Autocolliders’ is part of my ongoing research investigating line segment notation, and it is a continuation of my previous series ‘Struct’, ‘Autonomy’ and ‘Entropy’.