Resistance explores the tension between creation and erasure. By revisiting the minimalist aesthetics of early foundational works, the piece employs autonomous agents – black squares creating trails against an orange eraser – to simulate the complex, ever-shifting dynamics of a system in constant conflict.
‘Resistance’, 2017.
Critical Analysis
The extreme formal minimalism of Resistance also brings us back to LIA’s early works. Once more we have a LIA piece that is minimal to the extreme in its basic surface elements, but that through their elements’ motions and behaviours, builds complex dynamics and ever-shifting compositions. It is with these dynamics that LIA builds elaborate experiences, that develop gnarly narratives that may alternatively be seen as expressing political stances, declaring principles, or simply, perhaps, as gateways for introspection.
Text by Miguel Carvalhais
Project Details
Year Created: 2017
Medium: Generative Software Art
Format: Autonomous generative system; available as live application or variable-length video
Dimensions: Variable (installation-specific)
Exhibitions
Kalyon Kültür, Istanbul, Turkey (‘LIA: Coding Life’, Oct 1 – Dec 18, 2021)
Curators: Ceren and Irmak Arkman
