Graffitizer3
Graffitizer3 is part of a series of works by Daniel Berio which revolve around the computational exploration of graffiti style. Graffiti is the art of the abstraction of the letter form. Letters are distorted, fragmented and interlocked in complex ways, often to the point of becoming unreadable to the untrained eye. Daniel aims at transferring this same form of abstraction to his computer generated works with the process of Graffitization: The (computational) process that applies the stylistic principles of graffiti art to digital forms (media?).
This iteration of the Graffitizer series explores the material aspects of graffiti style with the use of drips, which are a characteristic that can be commonly seen in tags made with a marker. A vertically mounted drawing machine produces drawings with indian ink on paper. The ink continuously flows to the tip of a modified pump marker, resulting in a design made of dripping lines. The chaotic dripping of the ink leaves a permanent trace on the wall on which the machine is mounted and results in a pattern that emerges in time during the course of the exhibition.
The machine is driven by a software system that is being developed by the artist, in which he has implemented a series of procedures that model the gestures, the grammar of forms and some of the compositional rules that govern his process when drawing graffiti letters. The system allows one to easily combine such procedures algorithmically into sub-programs that generate a variety of designs that are consistent with Daniel’s hand-style but augment it with the ‘power’ of generative techniques.