Presentation

Micrographia explores the microscopic worlds of nature, taking inspiration from the early scientific and illustrative works of people such as Robert Hooke, Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Schmidt. You can read a little more about this series in this brief presentation. This artwork is part of a series of visual works that combine traditional generative algorithms with contemporary neural network techniques. To create these images I first make my own tools using software as my main medium. I write programs that execute algorithms. The images generated from these software tools are then fed into a Convolutional Neural Network in order to explore the formal structures and apply further stylistic features. The particularity of this process is in mixing a variety of techniques. The creation of the image starts from a very abstract idea and develops from concept to text (as code) to digital form and eventually finding its final state as a printed work of art. Each of these processes make for a unique artwork.