“Hyphae Zoetrope” by Jessica Rosenkrantz, part of the “Zoetropes” collection

I came across Jessica Rosenkrantz’s work on N-E-R-V-O-U-S, where she 3D printed several objects resembling forms in nature. The one attached here is called Hyphae Zoetrope, where the object is printed used an algorithm mimicking leaf structures. I personally find art resembling forms in nature to be the most appealing to me, and Rosenkrantz’s combination of computer generative processes and natural structures intrigued me a lot in how every instance of creating the structure will never be the same as the previous one.

I find machine-generated art such as these to be original, because I don’t base originality on what it is on the finished visual project, but on the idea behind it. I find computer-made art to be quite unique from previous forms of art established by so many generations, where those art forms are “finalized” in a way, where they can’t be generated differently and yet so similarly in another fashion. I find that human aesthetics can never be formalized and proceduralized in such a way that computer-generated art is, due to human beauty not functioning on such a rigid algorithm that mechanical beauty is.