Tyyne Claudia Pollmann

Scentanglements

The project’s intention was to explore the framework of my actant (computer & C4D software) in a series of experiments and disclose scenarios or entanglements that might arise from complex parameter inputs.

The setup was rudimentary: a camera circles inside the cavity of a torus and films emerging configurations. As material input, I inserted a shot of an earlier rendering, thus feeding the program only its own output. I tweaked the material and lighting parameters so that they affected each other in ways I could neither control nor predict. In about 1 of 1000 frames, a most peculiar and baffling scenario emerged.

Given the distinct and idiosyncratic neoplasia that emerged, I am inclined to assume that the algorithms implemented in the software contain shares of artificial intelligence. If not, the images indicate that “normal” algorithms enable the generation of novel shapes.