Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh

Ricard Marxer Piñón
Caligraft
Web-based art
ARTIST STATEMENT
The main idea behind this work is to explore a new dimension of
textual representation. I try to consider the different possibilities
of glyphs: words and text representations and distributions in
space and time.
My interest is motivated by the large amount of abstract generative
work created with the apparition of computing. I approach the figurative-generative
field by using calculus and computation. This allows
discovery of the limits of perception and recognition in a superficial
but fun and interactive way.
The choice of text as the target of study is due to the quantity of
resources available, and the history of study and work behind it.
Fonts are more available than other vector art, since they are almost
a requirement for most computer uses.
The work promotes exploration of textual representation spaces at
different levels. It also intends to motivate creation of public-license
fonts and create new design guidelines for optimal font crafting. On
the other hand, it pretends to challenge the already-existing font
rendering systems to discover what advantages computation can
provide in the field of text rendering.
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CONTACT
Ricard Marxer Piñón
Independent Artist
C/ Aragó, 433, 4t, 2a
8013ó Barcelona, Spain
email@ricardmarxer.com
www.caligraft.com
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
A very important and general objective of the work is to reduce the
gap between people and technology, and this was an important
constraint for selection of the technology used in the work. Because
of this, Processing was chosen as the main platform for creating new
computational calligraphies. It was also important in the decision
to create a new library, called Geomerative, that would facilitate the
tasks of handling vector shapes. The font format used as the seed
for the calligraphies is the True Type standard, because of its widespread
use and availability.
From another perspective, the work approaches the concept of generative
art, challenging the restriction of the domain to abstract art.
This raised many technical questions, such as how to apply typical
generative-art paradigms to recognizable figures, which required using
very simple artificial intelligence algorithms and dynamic systems
to achieve the “organic” impression of the results.