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Group exhibition with Josh Igwe, Fiona Stewart, Christine Dikonguè, Kahani Ploessl, Atharva Jadhav, Vladimir Kanic, Madison Cleary, Laura Dempsey, Casketnap, Dylan Usher, Sarah Itamah, Lewy180, TT (Tioluwani)
Planted among Laura Dempsey’s Untitled 001 sits Hive, Pollination,
Neutron Star, and Brain Fungus, four code sketches by Kahani Ploessl.
These sketches were created using Processing, generated real time
animations on a CRT TV through a Raspberry Pi.
Nature may seem random and unpredictable, yet in its totality do we see
patterns of its infinite cells. Hive, Pollination, Neutron Star, and
Brain Fungus all follow this principle, building structures in
accordance with their own biological impulses. Each sketch is generated
in real time the same way an organism would function - the code is
thinking, creating, and is never the same in each iteration. Hive,
Pollination, Neutron Star, and Brain Fungus involves exploring the one
cell in the many. How every organicism begins as one, growing and
building as its biological code dictates. In Hive we see a structure of
cells, moving both independently and collaboratively to create fluid
motion and meaning out of its biological algorithms. In Pollination and
Brain Fungus we see branching structures reach, bend, and connect from
the beginnings of an origin point. And lastly, in Neutron Star we see
the energy of our first single cell, flickering in a display of micro
structures.