cubes

*this project is about cubes.

Spontaneous Structure

Towards an Architecture of Consciousness
This is a project started in 2013 – I am still working on it as of 2022. I am producing a number of 3-D models using programming and modelling and animation software [3dsMax, Processing, Blender, and three.js in browser – available now! You will find them here: extreme blobs web apps].

These different models are spontaneously formed open-ended generative structures – they can grow infinitely. Each project is a different ‘form’ or algorithm I am using to reveal a certain aspect of psyche. Each of these forms are a human made – hand made algorithm – a formula that I embody and manifest manually by manipulating materials (whether paint, or 3D objects in a virtual space (or even algorithms)). What aspects of psyche each of these forms represent is not stated in words.

It is meant to be interpreted through the lens of art. There are however, other aspects worth examining. For the time being, I am just presenting the raw data from which an analysis may be drawn. This could be the viewer’s/listener’s job. This exercise is about seeing – scientific visualization and hearing – sonification of data. What is presented is the data from an experiment – the results from having run a human-generated algorithm.

What is most important about this approach is that each of the elements have been placed there by hand (me) rather than by any automated procedure as it is living presence that I am investigating through physical human gesture. There are a precise set of rules determining each form, but there is also plenty of room for variation. It is this variation that I suggest is the channel through which consciousness – living presence – is able to assert itself without so much distortion. What is it that determines where the cubes go when there is no defining rule? I suggest it is everything: habits, character, taste, personality, mood, environment, psychology, social conventions, the entire state of being no less…

This a process designed to use art as the medium through which phenomenon of being and especially psyche, may be revealed and observed. Each model is an artwork and that artwork is designed to reveal a certain aspect of psyche. As I learn psychology, I will be able to understand the specifics of psyche and be able to apply it to the algorithms/designs. Wish I knew it already but oh well.

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