JD Beltran and I are collaborating on a very large video projection for SFAI’s Design and Technology Salon on April 4th. The event is free and open to the public.

soft edges is series of prints, drawings, and videos based on a single mathematical pattern.

The project began with drawings that represent my faithful attempts to draw a precise mathematical pattern by hand based on a simple set of rules, analogous to a computer algorithm. Tiny imperfections reverberated across the page as the length and placement of each line affected all of its neighbors, a testament to the imprecision of my hand. The imperfections produced interesting perceptual effects; playing with them quickly became the focus of the work. I then wrote a computer program that mimics the hand drawn pattern by creating intentional algorithmic imperfections in the drawing of the pattern. I have since been going back and forth between the two: computer imitating hand, hand imitating computer ad infinitum.

http://plainesproject.wordpress.com/