3 Physical Computing Artists

Eric Stanley uses a laser cutter to intricately cut designs into layers of stacked paper. I find this especially interesting because I've worked with the laser cutter before for the Fab Lab class and it's just amazing the kind of detail you can get, and how much time and effort and organization it must have taken to achieve these pieces. Also, the scale of these is often around 8x8' which is huge!! His style definitely emulates that of a rose window of a church/cathedral and I wonder if that's to that scale? The conceptual aspects of his work include wanting to capture an admiration for the infinite. And he wants to focus on the conceptual comparison of permanence and massive size to the fragility and intimacy of the intricate innerworkings of his paper pieces.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/08/18/these-laser-cut-paper-windows-capture-the-infinite/

Supranav Dash creates digital images which he unleashes into the Internet via Instagram. He aims to create visually engaging abstractions of his iPhone photos, which he abstracts using a few different glitching apps. He wants to break away from the conventional images flooding the Internet, which is kind of ironic considering his background is in conventional portraiture. He feels that we're getting desensitized to images because of the thousands of images we see via social media every day, and this is a concept that I have identified with in the past and really find interesting as an avenue to explore (the oversaturation of our visual culture with images and specifically images found in social media platforms).

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/09/02/glitched-images-youd-never-think-were-photographs/

Erdal Inci creates animated GIFs that are often self portraits, or of himself. He utilizes himself as a model, often in a generic black hooded sweatshirt, and focuses on the concept of repetitive motion. And not only simply repetitive motion, but "cloned" motion, where he duplicates himself in the GIF to make this entrancing strange loop where he imposes this loop upon mundane situations or environments. He places emphasis on "time phases" as well, where the viewer can watch all the parts of one motion in a looping clip, and this really reminds me of the photographic experiments done by Muybridge when he was investigating motion as well.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2014/08/12/artist-erdal-enci-clones-himself-to-create-elaborate-choreographed-gifs-arttuesday/