computational modernism

In class on monday Nina showed some of her computational work that visualizes data but also another body of work that was an attempt to mimic how rust grows. It is remarkable how some of this work is reminiscent of field painting – I am thinking Mark Rothco or Helen Frankenthaler. Perhaps it is simply the of the formal concerns modernism mirrored in the procedural nature of programing based visualization mixed with the emphasis on process – that in the case of code is manifest explicitly in it being time-based. 

In terms of the meaningful mapping of data by artists some of the best is not computer based – I would recommend looking at Nicolas Rule's horse genealogy or any of Mark Lombardi's drawings for example.