Computational Expressionism #1

First in a who-knows-how-long series of what Joanna Berzowska has termed “Computational Expressionism“, where an artist programs a drawing tool and then uses it to create their own drawings.

The applet itself is available by clicking below. If you grab the sourcecode and run it yourself using Processing, you can save pictures by pressing ‘s’.

Edit: One quick note in relation to the original Computational Expressionism work done by Berzowska. In her essays it sounds like she did all of her work using a mouse as input. My experience is that it’s much more interesting to play with this sort of thing using a tablet input device. (Although the first picture shown above was just done using the mouse, so it’s not a requirement.)