Wondering about how AI “make its own decisions and interpretations” and having some discussions with engineers, I have signed for a Creative coding workshop with Damien Borowik in UAL, where he reveals more about the Creative coding course he is teaching. I learned about the Processing software – a completely unknown medium for me and about the huge engineering & art community around it. I completely enjoyed writing my own code and seeing it visualised into an art piece.
At the end of the evening, two ideas really fascinated me – the existence of random() and noise() functions.
We humans have found a way to generate randomness by a machine! The Perlin noise has been developed back in the 1980s by Ken Perlin – not even a novelty idea. It turns out we can actually just randomly pre-program a glitch or a bug or anything we want. What a powerful tool to have! And what a philosophical debate of who actually makes the decision as soon the function is called! Regardless of the answer, the essence is that there is a way to “recreate digitally” the incidental shake of the painter’s hand that makes the art work unique…
This was one very entertaining evening I spent, where a seed has been planted – can I become an artist by doing what I really enjoy – coding?