Flow Lines, One File Many Ways:
The digital becomes material – the range of possibilities
Liz Melchor
USA, living in Portugal
We are used to thinking of a digital design as an end product. However, what happens when the digital file is just a beginning to the material work?
I built a flow lines file using different math equations and a generator by Maks Surguy and then printed it with a pen plotter.
Each iteration is layered with different lines being turned on and off. The materials are varied. I use pens, charcoal and dry brushes, gesso, water, pencil, etc.
The final result of each print is a unique work, each with its own visual aesthetic despite being generated from the exact same digital starting file.
In these nine works, I explore the different results possible from a single file.
Liz Melchor
An American living in Lisbon. A lifelong obsession with the creative process has driven her wide interests across mediums. She learned to draw from an unconventional teacher who forbade his students from looking at the page for weeks on end. Last year, she shifted from drawing by hand to pen plotting, and quickly found this synthesis of art and technology satisfied many of her loves: puzzles, mathematics, drawing, and aesthetics. You can see more of her work on her Instagram or her website.
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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