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// –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– // Program to produce the generative illustration // for project report “Karrierewege in der Wissenschaft // und Research Assessment: Nationale Empfehlungen in // Österreich im Kontext des Europäischen Forschungsraums // Andreas Pirchner, 2024 // –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– // Importing the PDF library for saving the output as a PDF file import processing.pdf.*; // Global variables …

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http://andreaspirchner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Animation.mp4 // –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– // Program to produce the generative illustration // for the cover of UNIKO annual report. // Andreas Pirchner, 2022 // –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– import processing.pdf.*; // Initialize the increment values for the 3 types of shapes (cubes, lines, and points) float incCubes = 0.09; float incLines = 0.05; float incPoints = 0.015; // Initialize …

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The starting point for the illustrations of the focus are prototypical museum objects: the Mona Lisa as THE work of art, the Venus of Willendorf as THE historical artifact, herbarium voucher, butterfly and the skeleton of a Triceratops stand for the extensive collections of natural history museums, the light bulb for technical collections, the coin …

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“Shine on you crazy diamond” – A Generative Light Printer This post-digital installation operates at the intersection of computational imaging, kinetic light art, and data-driven performance. The work transforms a bitmap portrait of Syd Barrett into a site for algorithmic exploration, employing a custom-built “light printer” that functions as an inverted mark-making apparatus—a CNC plotter …

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“Hometrainer” (2011) A Media Intervention in Quantified Self Culture​   This kinetic assemblage operates as a media intervention, interrogating the performative construction of identity within early social media ecosystems and the emerging quantified self movement. The work materializes a critique of what Gilles Deleuze termed “societies of control,” specifically targeting the gamification of biometric data …

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