Artists' Statement
I make artwork by writing programs or software. I am interested in how to build abstract forms that move in space to form dynamic compositions. I create software that produces motion dynamics and abstract shapes. Dynamics and movement among other displayed through a computer screen, or through print on paper output. Another thing to do is manually painted using acrylic on canvas with objects generated visual output from the screen and the printed results.
In a simple flow, the processes is to write a series of commands in a programming language and build it to be software that can be executed by a computer. The resulting output is not merely pure generative in the sense of not fully autonomous, but a semi-automatic, where the input and interaction from humans are necessary to obtain the desired visual.
I see similarities between the process of making ceramics that I have ever learned and making software. In making ceramic we have to treat the materials (clay) so that there is no trapped air which can lead to broken tiles at the time of combustion. Similarly, mixing glaze to get the desired color when baked clay into ceramics, needs to be done carefully. So it is with programming, we write the program line by line, then ordered a computer for compiling (compiling) or change the file that contains the program that we can read (human readable) into file that can be understood by the computer (machine readable). This process is repeated because there are times when we make mistakes so that the compiler or compiling a program that gives an error message. And so on until we do not find more bugs and at some point to get the results we want.
Widianto Nugroho