Iamstatic curates an exhibition of webart linked to the theme of growth and pattern. The interface is as interesting as many of the works themselves. Its actually a pretty good schematic of the way we navigate the web across interconnecting vines, rhizomatically branching from node to node. One such connected node to iamstatic is c505 by Yoshi Sodeoka. His contribution to Growth and Pattern includes a collection of beautfiul plasma colourfield animations.

Some of the greatest studies on patterns and artforms in nature were of course carried out by Ernst Haeckel. His ‘Kunstformen der Natur’ tuned me into the radiolaria and their relatives!

Its amazing how similar these video feedback screen grabs are to the radiolaria at times. This blog will pay close attention to these art forms & patterns, in nature aswell as the digital realm, that bare markings of sentience or intelligble geometric form.

‘Every thing is sentient’ - heraclitus.

I couldn’t escape this page without feeling some strange emotion. The Senster, paralysed and frozen, lost like dinosouar bones in a museum and lost in time.

“Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot.”

Check this site for more on this incredible creation and be sure to watch the only surviving video of the Senster at play!

Welcome to DataIsNature!

These pages are a filtration of browserSpace covering such topics as Generative Art, Robot Art, Sound Art, Video, Actionscript, Visual Installation, VJing and AudioVisual Software. Essentially its a space to share my findings in a number of personal research areas. The diverse range of provocative and beautiful artifacts being created with machines is staggering - this page will document many of these works both from the past and the present.