Following the previous post about art through code – here is Erik Natzke’s work. Incredible how such an organic feel can be created with entirely digital tools. Erik himself says how he wishes he could do this with real paint.
In contrast to Keith Peter’s work, code is used here to create a tool (paintbrush) instead of coding the ‘pixels’ of the artwork itself. The debate remains if coding an artwork is not so much creating something new but rather mirroring mathematics. But this is a fallacy of the human mind seeing any piece of art which might seem highly complex can be translated into a mathematical formula. What else is the code captured in a JPG but a simple rendition of a seemingly complex visual which could be rendered even more truthful to the mathematical ‘pure form’ by increasing the complexity of the code.
So the difference is in the consciousness of the human mind behind an artwork. When coding an artwork you are supposedly ‘conscious’ of every ‘pixel’ you create whereas with Natzke’s brush your consciousness, because of the limitations of our brainpower, is not grasping the complexity of what your hands are doing. But it’s still an imitation of a mathematical formula which hasn’t necessarily been created in the universe (yet) but which exists as part of the endless creations mathematics can bring forth.
Weird how, often, human consciousness formulates its own limitations as ‘chance’ just because it cannot grasp the complexity.
