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From Forms to Forces: Repairing Nature

    This past weekend I attended the third and final Forms to Forces on "Repairing Nature" and was very interested in the pieces that were touched upon. 

    The most interesting piece to me was the one by Ursula Endlicher. She was able to use food and code to tie with art. The idea behind the piece was that each row of vegetables represented a different line of code and essentially an edible HTML tag for that plant. These six vegetables used were previously planted at the Marble House Project residency where she got her idea.

  

 The concept behind this was very intriguing and made me think about everywhere code is essentially run. We constantly use code without knowing it and when you take a step back and look, code runs everything. This is part of the reason it's considered a language for most people. It connects us to every aspect of life and we forget this. It brings me back to the lecture we covered over math and art and how math is part of nature and art everywhere we look. Math is used in art by the Golden Ratio and in nature through the forming of various natural processes. In the same sense, a work of code can be as beautiful for some people as a painting for others.

    In the case of Ursula, the beauty shown in the piece presented was the connection between the coding language and the artwork language. The beauty that the lines of code are directly tied to the world of math and the world of art. These mediums may be vague from a perspective but taking the right field of view allows us to see that coding has changed the world and allowed anything in life to be represented by code. Anything that an artist of code thinks about, can be represented in their coding artworks.

    Her piece taught me that anything is possible in art. I previously had not understood that art can take any form but the use of food and code opened my eyes. It makes me question what other aspects of life and technology can be tied back into the natural world.

Sources:

1. Fine artist playing with interactivity, math, code. Nathan Selikoff. (2020, January 18). Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://nathanselikoff.com/

2. Vince, By: et al. “How Coding Is Used in the World & How It Has Changed Life (Examples).” ID Tech, Vince Vince Has Worked as a Camp Director for ID Tech. Previously, He Spent over 20 Years in the Video Game Industry, Working for Companies like Sony, Microsoft and Disney. Vince Has His Nerd Card Fully Stamped, with His Favorite Stamps Including: Pokémon, D&D, Comic Books and of Course, Video Games., https://www.idtech.com/blog/how-coding-can-change-the-world.

3.“Painting with Code.” IDEO Is a Global Design and Innovation Company, https://www.ideo.com/blog/painting-with-code.

4. Golden Ratio in modern art: Find out how is the Fibonacci sequence related to the golden ratio. ARTBLOG. (2021, June 7). Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://blogofart.com/art/fibonacci-ratio/

5. Lesson 3: Vanishing points and looking at art - cs.ucf.edu. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2022, from https://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cap6938-02/refs/VanishingPoints.pdf