About the Erasure Exhibition
Erasure is the first new media exhibition at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition asks, ‘What is created when you remove something?’ It features work from invited local artists as well as two major pieces on loan from Arts Council England.
The Artists at Erasure
Erasure has contributions from artists who work in very different ways. Chris Twigg uses bold colours and patterns in dramatic, static pieces, while Matt Pearson creates generative art that interacts with the viewer. Toby Zeigler combines subtle patterns with scale, and John Frankland creates permanence for transience.
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Peter de Jong Attractors
I've not come across Peter de Jong Attractors before. I wrote an implementation of a Lorenz Attractor and have read about Strange, but not de Jong. A quick Google search brings up the usual sources, such as Wolfram and You Tube. Slightly deeper searching uncovers a beautiful video of them, written in Processing by Jon B, who also links to Jared Tarbell's site (whose work appears in the Erasure exhibition) and to a site by Paul Bourke. Paul, in turn, credits Chapter 4 of 'The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art and Nature' by Clifford Pickover. I already...
A week on
The exhibition has been running for just over a week now, and it feels like it's been there for a long time. I have a routine now of passing through that gallery whenever I'm near, just to check on the equipment, and especially the PCs. I was working in the museum on Saturday and Sunday, and it was good to see so many people in the gallery, playing with Broken Mirrors, using the PCs and reading the Stoke Your Fires brochures. This morning I collected more images created by visitors, and we'll add some of them to the website. Later today...
Ideas to create
We've offered a coding challenge on this website, asking people to create alternative versions of the Erasure exhibition logo. As a start, we've put a few variations on the Open Processing website using a basic .jpg image of white text on a black background. For those who feel comfortable importing libraries into Processing, here's a different approach. Text is transformed using the geomerative library by Richard Marxer. If you're feeling slightly more adventurous, how about the stunning mis.shap.en.ness by Reza Ali? Letters are converted...
Create a New Erasure Logo
If you’ve been inspired by the artists who use computer code in the exhibition to create art, why not have a go yourself? Have a look at some examples then create your own version of the logo using Processing, a free programming language designed for people who prefer to create rather than programme.
