Today, these remnant parcels represent an essential archipelago of opportunity.
Once each site’s urban performance is maximized its design can be engaged & extended for local benefit. Based on existing models of community design, as well as new research in digital democracy, we propose place-based media to shape opinions, engage communities, and even aggregate finances and funding. The final outcome is a network of urban places and virtual space combined.
I dig the digital overlays on paper maps & on video of the sites (near mid-video), and idea of online community engagement with small urban lots. (Yes, my mind is on Loveland lately, why do you ask?)
Check out these sweet generative typography experiments using Processing / Geomerative over at Caligraft. I always loved doodling serif letterforms myself…
They remind me of John Langdon’s ambigrams, calligraphic creations that have extremely clever rotational or mirror symmetry.
Here’s an interview with him, and a whole magazine (Ambigram) with articles, galleries, and automatic generators.
Not only the light and shading technique, but the organic surface details are reminiscent of electron micrograph images. These next few come from my favorite EM photography gallery, Eye of Science (see also cool nano photography, Dennis Kunkel, Google images).
I’ve recently unearthed my TI-85 calculator from school, evoking those hours in study hall writing TI-BASIC programs. Even then my favorite function was the random number generator, and I can recall one program that would create a monochrome, pixelated garden with vines creeping and spiraling, growing leaves and flowers. Unpredictable and different every time, that’s the important bit.
When I discovered the Spacecollectivegallery I felt overwhelmed and dizzy like I had met myself while traveling abroad, because I had been collecting many of these same images as fascinating & inspirational source material, studies in complexity and emergent patterns. Escher, Haeckel, generative architecture, networks, electron microscopy, immiscible fluids, fractal cauliflower.
There’s a lot of great writing and artwork there about the future of humankind and the evolution of consciousness, I encourage you to go browse!
Hi, I'm Larry Sheradon. I make art with code and ink, shoot photos of tiny worlds, and live in San Francisco.
Write me at sheradon (at) gmail (dot) com.
