A Framework for Future Paintings

Painting is a physical practice that engages enactive modes of understanding as well as requiring a heightened visual perception and observational skills. This paper argues that by bringing technology into the painting process, tools can be developed that seek to empower this latent intellect and ability that is normally lost when using a computer in conventional ways. This paper seeks to outline principles necessary to build with software in a dynamic way – leaving space for creative observation, discovery and evolution. Specifically by implementing a Digital Painting Interface and software framework to allow for the manipulation of computer graphics through painting and exploring the differences between these two historically antithetical creative processes. From this, an environment can be developed which allows for the freedom to create using either the artist’s hand or the computer’s generative algorithms in addition to producing a range of artistic works neither painting nor graphics programming alone would be able to create.

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Stuart Faromarz Batchelor: Role: Artist

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Publication date: July 2019

Publication date (Print): July 2019

Pages: 310-317

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.59

SO-VID: 51d468ee-238d-4454-8b94-ed00b56d5472

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

Conference acronym: EVA 2019

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 8 - 11 July 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] J. Berger 1973 Ways Of Seeing British Broadcasting Corp

[2] I. Bogost 2007 Persuasive Games: The Expressive power of Videogames MIT Press Cambridge, MA 4

[3] R. Casey 2010 Form + Code Princeton Architectural Press 25

[4] J. Gleick 1993 Genius: The Life And Science Of Richard Feynman Vintage

[5] J. Gurney 2010 Color And Light Andrews McMeel Publishing

[6] R. Ikeda 2018 Continuum Éditions Xavier Barral 158

[7] R. F. Malina 1990 Digital Image: Digital Cinema: The Work Of Art In The Age Of Post-Mechanical Reproduction. Leonardo Supplemental Issue 3 33

[8] M. Mateas 2008 Procedural Literacy: Educating the New Media Practitioner D. Davidson Beyond Fun ETC Press Pittsburgh, PA 67

[9] R. Schmid 2013 Alla Prima 2: Everything I know about Painting Stove Prairie Press

[10] C. Reynolds 1987 Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model SIGGRAPH ‘87 Proceedings 25

[11] B. Victor 2013 Drawing Dynamic Visualizations https://vimeo.com/66085662 retrieved 27 February 2019 )

[12] B. Victor 2015 The Humane Representation Of Thought https://vimeo.com/115154289 retrieved 5 December 2018 )

[13] G. Youngblood 1989 Cinema And The Code Leonardo Supplemental Issue 2 27

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