V344: Playing with GNU Unifont
Alexandre Villares
University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
We benefit everyday from Free and Open Source software and fonts.
V344 tries to explore and reinterpret GNU Unifont pixel font that aims to cover large parts of the Basic Multilingual Plane as a source of playful patterns.
Unicode is one of the contemporary era marvels, to try and encode all human made glyphs and allow collaboration between peoples is amazing.
V344 picks data from the GNU Unifont pixel font and reinterprets it as source for pattern and glyph exploration.
Alexandre Villares
Educator, visual artist and consultant for design and new media projects living in São Paulo, Brazil. Trained as an architect at FAU-USP (2000) with a master’s degree from FECFAU-Unicamp (2019). Founding co-organizer of Noite de Processing and Processing Community Day in São Paulo. Alexandre teaches at several places and does research in computational art procedures, generative design, creative coding and how to teach computer programming in a visual context. He tries to draw every day with code sharing the results in his sketch-a-day project.
RECODE Online Exhibition
RECODE has admitted a resonance of the culture of the creative coding community as a plural movement of interpretation, reclaim, revisit, and/or resignification of artworks and fundamental practices of early computer graphics and art and its subsequent works through the usage of contemporary media, tools, and technologies.
We invite you to explore how artists, academics, researchers, and practitioners explored and interpreted the notion of recode in their works.
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