Emergent

2019–2024

The main idea of this artistic and algorithmic process was to develop a method to abstract any image in a way that emphasizes its affective quality within the perceptual process. In the algorithmic process, color layers of an image are first isolated and then combined into new arrangements. Original code: Grogan et al., Automatic Palette Extraction for Image Editing, 2018, original images taken by me, from IAPS dataset, from open source libraries, from a friend, and from a stranger. Collaboration with Yu Tian (current) and Tassu Takala (2018–2021) The images below are sketches for developing the program and documentation of the process from November 2019 onwards.

The image pair shows the fading of semantic objects through the process: original image (left), abstracted image constructed from some of its color layers (right).

August 2023