Unit1 Methods of Iterating: Week 3

Excerpt from the project brief

Next, as a way of continuing this critical examination of your tool or medium, develop an iterative experiment that ‘hacks’ it to do something that it is not intended to do.

Consider how you can subvert its primary function, use, or context—in other words, what it does, how it does it, or what it does it for—as a way of interrogating it.

My process

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The example of moving images from my iterations

My aim is to hack the tool by subverting its main function, ‘code’, to visualise itself. Since code is a hidden infrastructure, I wonder what it would look like if I generated code that appears as the outcome.

The GIFs are produced in Photoshop by exporting images generated by my code.

Note: Please refer to my process presentation for the explanation, as I primarily intended to share examples of my moving images. I will update the blog once I have more time.

Iteration set 01:
Translating the ‘translate()’ function and its example code

Iteration set 02:
Deconstructing the syntax elements of code

Iteration set 04:
Over-compressing the code (The displayed code is taken from the replicated project from week 2)

File Versions

Note: These files are named incorrectly. The actual development happened in week 3.