deserts
Winter 2022 | Gaugin Image Creator, Scanner bed | 5”x 5” x .25”
Desert is a zine proessed through the Gaugin Image Creator, translating drawn color blocks into landscapes. Drawing inspiration from scans of landscapes, this zine is a compilation of real and created landscapes, paired with generated text. This project ossilates between analogue and digital with each passage leaving its distortion marks. Desert focuses on using the space between digital and physical space as a medium in and of itself.
frankie’s content creature
The above zine is the product of a code that creates printouts.
Using JavaScript and AppleScript, the program selects and formats images from a database of images-created from randomly selected arena channels- and prints them. It then uses the generative text website Botnik to randomly generate text based off randomly selected and compiled arena text files. The text is formatted as a 8.5”x11” pdf and printed.
I created a zine with the produced content using tape, scissors, scanners, markers, and reprints. I did not use outside images or text.
These are the database, code, and rules I used. I encourage you to explore the code and create your own rules. Please reach out to fdallas@risd.edu for help setting up the program on your computer, questions, and any zines you create.
javascript code
applescript code
image/text database
instructions
bluets
Winter 2022 | Javascript, Photoshop
Bluets is the combination of Maggie Nelson’s poetry with images generated with JavaScript in Photoshop. The code uses script listener code with loops and if-else statements. It functions as a web, selecting a path with its own specialty manipulations, loops, and sub-paths. The images and poems included are hand selected and paired from the generated image outputs and Bluets by Maggie Nelson.
code
working process
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arena
