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Introduction to Computational Media

ICM – Malevich would have liked this –

Somewhere I have a photo of a solar powered kinetic wall sculpture modeled after Kasmir Malevich’s Black Square and Red Square (1915). Malevich’s entire body of work is filled with a unique combination of clarity, energy, and vitality which the art world has seldom seen since.

This week’s assignment was to get something to move. I chose the red square of this contemporary icon. “Mouse around the red square,” sounds more like a headline than how this Processing code works. But there you have it….

Peter Terezakis

Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com

Introduction to Computational Media

9/11 ICM/PROCESSING

OK. Squares in space.

Experimenting with transparency (alpha):


Kasmir Malevich‘s work has been an inspiration for me as long as I can remember. I couldn’t find the image of a solar operated kinetic work that I built which was modeled after Black Square Red Square to include here. There is an image of that piece in the link above. Meanwhile if you roll your mouse over the red square, it moves about. “Mouse over red square,” sounds like the title of a book.. well maybe a chapter in a book.

This was an exercise in variables and an opportunity to think about opArt of 1960’s

Using transparency and drawing ellipses with the mouse:

Using text on September 11, 2012

Peter Terezakis

Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com

Introduction to Computational Media

Shoshin: ICM Week 1

I know these are baby steps. But let’s face facts: The imprints left
behind are embarrassing. Really. Unless you factor in the idea that
this is something new, a challenge. This course is a tremendous
opportunity to begin again.

I hope I get to look back at this and do something besides grimace.


Peter Terezakis

Tisch School of the Arts
http://www.terezakis.com