Parametric Design
The following designs include projects executed outside of my master’s program and reflect the cerebral journey in how I cultivate my process. The pieces selected below were completed as part of my coursework at MIT.
11:11
Parametric Design
Created in Java
The following projects include selections exploring the phenomenon of 11:11. 11:11 contains a metaphysical principals of synchronicity and a mathematical phenomenon of doubling and folding within itself. What did unlocking this experiment with the math and metaphysics marvel yield? As it turns out, when exercised visually using a series of for-loops and other methods in Java, the mythical number takes one on a deep dive journey inside of a D.C. Comic strip. Read more about this project.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The
Octopus
Parametric Design
Created in Illustrator, Photoshop, and iMovie
This design followed the process of disassembling + re-composing the United States Constitution’s First Amendment through the lens of “electrAcity”, a theory by Greg Ulmer that proclaims is the next phase of human consciousness in digital age and “is to digital media what literacy is to print”. Consciousness in the digital age Ulmer believes presides external to the human body and confers the communicative abilities to express compound messaging. Employing the application of this theory to the deconstruction /re-composition of the First Amendment, electrAcity manifests through the metaphor of an octopus, where the process assumes the behaviors and motives of an octopus while exploring online and social media to aggregate polarized perspectives of the contemporary American political culture and meshing these perspectives into the main canvas that, under the deconstruction through time, holds the nebulous comprehension of the First Amendment. View the Octopus process in action on YouTube. Also, read more about this project from the perspective of implementing the CATTts process.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
