O.I.G.C. is an interactive generative software application with sound, created in 2006. The work was commissioned by Kunstverein Medienturm for ‘Further Processing’, an exhibition focused on central positions in generative software art created with the open-source language Processing.
Curated by Marius Watz, the exhibition highlighted the “author-based” nature of programming as an artistic medium. The system explores the tension between attraction and repulsion, allowing simple behavioral rules to evolve into complex structures even without direct user intervention. The work was subsequently shown at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam as part of a survey of Austrian abstract art.
The Artwork in Motion
O.I.G.C. (2006), video documentation of the interactive software.
Generated Outputs
Digital stills from the generative system.
Installation at Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (2006)
Installation views from the ‘Further Processing’ exhibition.
The Concept
O.I.G.C. is about confrontation, conflict and reunion. Designed to be interactive, just to observe it is sometimes the best choice, letting the automations act themselves. Simple systems of objects and behaviours become elusively complex, their metamorphosis transcending mathematical beauty and exuding poetic meaning from where a rich meta-text slowly emerges.
Text by Miguel Carvalhais
Project Details
Year Created: 2006
Medium: Interactive Generative Software and Sound
Commission
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (2006)
Exhibitions
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (‘Further Processing’, Sep 23 – Nov 25, 2006)
Curator: Marius Watz
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (‘TheAustrianAbstracts’, Sep 23 – Oct 15, 2006)
Curator: Norbert Pfaffenbichler
‘Further Processing’ Exhibited Artists: Ben Fry, Casey Reas, Golan Levin, LIA, Mark Napier, Marius Watz, Karsten Schmidt, Pablo Miranda Carranza, Fabio Franchino, Martin Wattenberg.
