Generative (optional: interactive) installation
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Tentasho
Tentasho is a procedural work by LIA that can be experienced either as an interactive installation on a touch screen or as a self-running generative system on screen or as a projection. In the interactive mode some parameters of the system can be controlled by using the onscreen interface and by inputting gestures on the canvas. The five interface controllers are not explicitly labeled, and the interactions with them or with the canvas bring forth outcomes that are often unexpected and surprising.
The generative mode takes over whenever there is no input from a user. As if the piece is impatient and eager to create new compositions, Tentasho starts acting on its own, creating images — or is it animations, as the images are rarely still? — that explore the system’s phase-state, using variations of the same parameters and controllers that are accessible to users. Yierning to act, Tentasho creates but also destroys, not allowing any composition — its own or the users’ — to persist for long.
Tentasho is strikingly minimal, but not necessarily in a formal sense, as the compositions that are generated can be quite complex and detailed. Tentasho minimalism derives from LIA choosing to work with a single algorithm, a limited chromatic scope, and narrow ranges of variation within a restricted number of controllable parameters, that are tirelessly explored for the countless variations that emerge from them.
// Text: Miguel Carvalhais
Artificial Creators art exhibition, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK, 2019/06/15 – 2019/09/29
photo by Ben Westoby, courtesy of The Eden Project Trust
Artificial Creators art exhibition, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK, 2019/06/15 – 2019/09/29
photo by Ben Westoby, courtesy of The Eden Project Trust
Artificial Creators art exhibition, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK, 2019/06/15 – 2019/09/29
photo by Ben Westoby, courtesy of The Eden Project Trust
Yokyerler / Nonspaces, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016/12/16 – 2017/03/04
Yokyerler / Nonspaces, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016/12/16 – 2017/03/04
Yokyerler / Nonspaces, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016/12/16 – 2017/03/04
Yokyerler / Nonspaces, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016/12/16 – 2017/03/04
4 photos above by Akbank Sanat, thank you!
Exhibitions
Artificial Creators art exhibition
curators: Blanca Pérez Ferrer
Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
2019/06/15 – 2019/09/29
Yokyerler / Nonspaces
curators: Ceren and Irmak Arkman
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2016/12/16 – 2017/03/04
List of Artists: Artificial Creators art exhibition
LIA, Anna Ridler, Ian Gouldstone, David Bowen, Jon McCormack
List of Artists: Yokyerler / Nonspaces
Can Büyükberber, Félix Luque, Field, Iñigo Bilbao, İdil İlkin, Lab[au], LIA, Onformative, Ouchhh, Paul Myoda, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Semiconductor, Sougwen Chung, Youki Hirakawa