Body Paint - Mehmet Akten

Body Paint by Mehmet Akten.

 

C++ and openFrameworks based interactive installation, 2009.

 

Code:Craft Exhibition

Featuring: C E B Reas, Golan Levin, William Ngan, Mehmet Akten, Daniel Brown, David Dessens and Daniel Widrig.

27 Jan - 16 Jun (see venue for opening times)

Millennium Gallery, Arundel Gate, Sheffield. S1 2PP

Free Admission

 

We often think of 'craft' as strictly hand-made, but what about the craft of writing, or even writing computer code? How do you define craft in a digital age?

 

The works in this exciting exhibition, specially curated by Lovebytes in collaboration with Museums Sheffield, show how artists are exploring and exploiting computer coding to produce stunning visual art using the latest digital technologies.

 

Far from breaking with the past, Code:Craft shows that the leading lights of the digital art world are often inspired by artistic traditions, such as Chinese watercolour painting or Abstract Expressionism. Several draw parallels between natural forms and patterns, like those which influence many craftspeople, and the new digital aesthetics emerging from code.

 

Artists working in this area often use 'open source' software which is freely available to anyone with a computer. These tools for digital art are designed to make creative interactions with technology more accessible to those who aren't computer programmers themselves. Visitors to Code:Craft can even participate in the exhibition themselves by helping to create new large-scale digital artworks with a specially-designed programme, using their whole body to paint with splashes of digital colour.

 

Code:Craft features work by: C E B Reas, Golan Levin, William Ngan, Mehmet Akten, Daniel Brown, David Dessens, Daniel Widrig.

 

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