Recode
Nicolas Lebrun
France
Recode proposes to rethink some of Bridget Riley's works with programming tools.
Some archives suggest that Bridget Riley created these compositions using collages and fairly simple diagrams, so there is no initial code, or at least it is not available.
My approach is to decode the painting, this activity is similar to reverse engineering as it is about understanding how to achieve this composition and perhaps why this composition strikes me so.
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The project is more a question of rethinking than recoding the paintings.
- Experience Recode
This relationship, this back and forth between the code and the reproduction of the painting, is a bit like the discussion that I have never had and that I will probably never have with the artist.
Nicolas Lebrun
Born in 1985 in Carpentras (France). He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier, where he lives and works since. Initially interested in music, since 2010 he has been developing an artistic practice using creative protocols, which often leads him to use programming. His research mixes scientific imagery and abstraction. These pieces often take the form of a list or a lexicon (variations around the same form or a process, sampling of media or archives, serial work ...).
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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