David Wicks :: Works » print

Bend

Wicks — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:38:06 +0000

Bend developed as a playful way to respond to the fold in a book. Visually, it was informed by a series of photographs taken by spacecraft Cassini.

The program creates a series of lines, and then creates a series of deformers that warp them using gravity-like forces. After completing the static version, I produced a generative animation using a modified version of the software.

Jacob’s Cave

Wicks — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:19:06 +0000

Jacob’s Cave developed in response to seeing a range of helictite formations in a show cave in Missouri. Helictites grow downward, but also spiral up when the influence of forces like capillary action become stronger than gravity. I created a physics simulation which grows forms in a similar manner. The drawing is generally under the control of gravity, but other forces cause it to grow upward and into spiraling shapes.

192 Short Stories

Wicks — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:57:56 +0000

192 Short Stories is a selection of submissions to Destinations. Displayed on two panels, the stories filled a wall for the exhibition Leaving Here, Being There. Each story is comprised of a place someone wants to go, the reason they want to go there, and an aerial photo of the place. The remainder of the narrative is left to the viewer.

Distance and Common Desires

Wicks — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:00:40 +0000

Distance and Common Desires is a series of prints created through analysis of submissions to Destinations. I filtered people’s responses to the questions “Where do you want to go?” and “Why do you want to go there?” to find clusters of similar desires. The three groups presented here are people traveling to go home, those who want to see their lovers, and those traveling for food.

Each print shows the distance between people and their desires, the paths they would follow to reach them, and the relative direction to their desired places. They present a macro view of travel within common narratives of desire.

I used the cairo 2d library within cinder to sort and draw the storylines. To parse the data, I used a few python scripts. Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper.

White Glove Flocking

Wicks — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:08:21 +0000

Using the data from white glove tracking, I rendered the entire performance from the landmark television broadcast of Billy Jean in a single frame. Computer agents danced over the frame, with different degrees of tightness controlling how closely they followed Michael’s glove.

Vehicles

Wicks — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:40 +0000

This series of images was generated from the trails of vehicles responding to various stimuli placed arbitrarily on a plane. This particular series was designed to be printed in multiples at a small scale. The vehicles were programmed in processing after reading Valentino Braitenbergs short work, Vehicles.

I learned about the book from a lecture by Casey Reas at Miami University.

Aggregation / Expansion III

Wicks — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:35:58 +0000

A series of four-color xerox-transfer prints made from photographs taken of the urban installations I set up in Shanghai. Rebecca Fenton taught me the technique and helped me run the first few layers of each print.

Ikebana

Wicks — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:18:53 +0000

Ikebana is a series of generative prints made by transforming a photograph of Osaka at night.