• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

LIA

Software Art

  • Projects
  • NFTs
  • Videos
  • Live Visuals (Selection)
  • Apps
  • Design Elements
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
    • Plotter drawings
    • Glicée Prints
    • On Silicon
    • colour
    • black & white
  • Exhibitions
  • Awards
  • Video Screenings
  • Live Visuals
  • Publications
  • Workshops+Talks+Teaching

It Is Black It Is White

September 12, 2008 By admin

interactive, generative application, sound

 CLICK HERE TO PLAY ONLINE 

Exhibitions

Digital Canvas – Art for Screens
MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2007/11/13-2007/12/09

EME – Encontros de Musica Experimental
www.emefestival.org
Igreja de Santiago, Castelo, Palmela, Portugal
2007/10/02-2007/10/06

Text

It Is Black It Is White

It Is Black It Is White is an interactive, online software-art project by Lia, which can be used world-wide on the Internet in creative and experimental ways. Users are invited to play with movements and forms to create individual images which are often reminiscent of plans and architectural designs.

It Is Black It Is White makes complex sketches in black and white, which are produced automatically and/or manually via sequentially drawn elements. The program window is permanently partitioned by graphic play figures. Lia limits the possiblities of programming to experiments with contrast, where the results concentrate on form and movement. Intermediate tones in shades of grey become possible, volumes and plays of light manifest and vanish. The two complementary tones of black and white stand equally for harmony in their apparent competition. Pairs of opposites; light and shade, contraction and expansion, ascent and descent, private vs. public, static or dynamic and organic wilderness in contrast to the structures of civilization can be seen in Lias application. Staircase like structures are just as likely, as apparent labyrinthine structures or the effects of structured group arrangements, as one finds in marches and dances.

With the mouse as interface the viewers themselves can arrange the application in a melodic or a well-planned way, and exert influence on the evolution of the picture.
The resulting views can appear, dependent on the personal interpretation of the user, once arranged and then again completely chaotically. They can have various meanings, depending on the point of view of the user. The subconsciousness of the player gives the way for possible new ideas, which fit to a personal reality. Some initial focus group users felt for example intuitively reminded by It Is Black It Is White of Frank Lloyd Wrights draft for the Guggenheim museum or of Hans Scharouns Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall.

Just as with a joint determined musical topic, overlaid temporally again and again, form by repetition and variation a complex work, here too are also the basic modules of architecture abstracted forms, which constitute the final character of the building by their special arrangement and repetition. Lia’s structures “radiate” with It Is Black It Is White into an imaginary universe from originally content-free directions, which take up and extend this principle.

In It Is Black It Is White permanent developing and passing prevails. Old yields to new, forms complement each other as they accrete and composite. Patterns and varying contrasts take on sculptural character to be extinguished one moment later again.
Similar to how city structures constantly change, in an incomprehensible manner, so too are all moments in Lias unique work of art. The existence of a certain impression is like an illustration of eternity.

The human consciousness, via abstraction, can be inspired by the observation of Lias work to new ideas: An individual moment, which appears to the user harmonic and important, can be frozen as screenshot.
Influences on architecture are never arbitrary. They are oriented at current conditions in civilization, whereby each culture has its own unique building tradition. Regional building methods are expressed as eternal truths in respective cultures. New styles are modified by changing society, forms, materials and technologies. In the digital age Lia now gives a possible example of planning, inspired by generative software art.
It Is Black It Is White can be a playful application for contemporary architectural thinking.

Text: Joanna Render with LIA, 2007

Filed Under: Projects Tagged With: 2007, generative, interactive, online, sound

Primary Sidebar

Search

Become a Patron!
Please check out my
SHOP
Thank you!

Subscribe for updates!

Low frequency (max. 4 times a year)!

Tags

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 book booklet CD CD-Rom commercial cover facade generative inlay installation interactive interface iPad iphone live visuals magazine online plotter drawing print processing publication sound still image tangible video vinyl
4 more sleeps til the foundation drop, don't miss 4 more sleeps til the foundation drop, don't miss it! 🙃

@withfoundation 

#NFT #NFTART #cryptoart #generativeart #generative #abstract #abstractart #creativecoding #softwareart #codeart #generative #algorithm #algorithmicart #mathart #creativecodeart #madewithcode #computationalart
tomorrow is the last day of my little game: i’ve tomorrow is the last day of my little game: i’ve reduced the edition numbers by 1 every day (starting from 10) - so some might end up as 1/1s, who knows ? 🙃
https://versum.xyz/user/tz1auPyXVaMy3GntdCQwH2VGNuFj6bAocj2v/created
How And How Not To Maintain Friendships https://w How And How Not To Maintain Friendships

https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/14237

edition of 512 @ 32 tez
there are still a few pieces from the "21 times ro there are still a few pieces from the "21 times round the seasons" series left on @withfoundation 
go check them out here:
https://foundation.app/@liasomething
#nft
733 gone, only 267 to go! 😉 "little boxes on th 733 gone, only 267 to go! 😉
"little boxes on the hillsides"
go and get your personal child to love forever! ♥️
https://artblocks.io/project/185
 
+ don't forget to press key a to animate!
Factory drop on @artblocks_io: Tuesday October 19 Factory drop on @artblocks_io:
Tuesday October 19 at 11 am CT
+ preview on ropsten testnet:
https://artist-staging.artblocks.io/project/47
(on details page, press a to see it moving! 🙃)
+ please please please help spread the word 🙏
the preview has started on ropsten testnet: https: the preview has started on ropsten testnet:
https://artist-staging.artblocks.io/project/47
@artblocks_io
coming soon to an ArtBlocks near you! @artblocks_i coming soon to an ArtBlocks near you! @artblocks_io
Factory drop:
Tuesday October 19 at 11 am CT
please please please help spread the word on all possible channels! 🙏
REPOST from @bitforms: On the occasion of bitform REPOST from @bitforms:

On the occasion of bitforms gallery’s 20th anniversary, we are pleased to present “A Generative Movement” in San Francisco @minnesotastreetproject. Join us for the opening on October 2, from 2–7 PM.

The exhibition, showcasing generative artwork from @refikanadol @studiodanielcanogar @liasomething @lozanohemmer @manfredemohr @reas @nihil_diamond and @squirrelzurkow celebrates artistic vision through computational innovation with works spanning from 1971–2021. Although algorithmic in part, exhibited works are a human exploration of process—each piece is guided by unique parameters to construct a desired outcome. “A Generative Movement” manifests generative software’s ability to act as an artistic tool with evolving outputs. 

October 2, 2–7 PM. Masks required. 

We’re excited to share Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will be present from 5–7 PM to discuss his work and exhibition @sfmoma.
#agenerativemovement #generativeart #bitformsSF #generativesoftware #minnesotastreetproject #sfmoma
i have 2 new works on @superrare.co check them out i have 2 new works on @superrare.co
check them out here:
https://superrare.com/lia/creations
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#crypto #art #cryptoart #generativeart #generative #abstract #abstractart #creativecoding #softwareart #codeart #generative #algorithm #algorithmicart #mathart #creativecodeart #madewithcode #computationalart
check out my new series on @withfoundation.space: check out my new series on @withfoundation.space:
"21 times round the seasons"

#01-#06 already minted, more to come!
(21 all in all to be clear 😉 )

https://foundation.app/@liasomething
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#crypto #art #cryptoart #generativeart #generative #abstract #abstractart #creativecoding #softwareart #codeart #generative #algorithm #algorithmicart #mathart #creativecodeart #madewithcode #computationalart
i put 3 new cathedrals on @withfoundation! https: i put 3 new cathedrals on @withfoundation! 
https://foundation.app/@liasomething
i had to raise the reserve price to 1 ETH, i hope you like them anyways 🙃
Follow on Instagram
copyright © LIA (Impressum | Shop policies)