





Dragulescu explains the series represented by the images above:


2. Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism.

3. Extrusions in C Major is an experiment in music visualization. The composition used for these images is the Trio C-Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The computer software analyzes a range of note characteristics such as value, velocity, duration, and overall tempo. The notes of the various instruments are differentiated by color: white for piano, yellow for violin, and blue for cello.

Further differences between the compositions is achieved through the rotation of forms while they grow and produce more curvy structures. These structures develop segment by segment, so each segment represents a note of a particular instrument from the composition. In addition, each note’s characteristic — velocity, value, and duration — is translated in the segment’s weight, length, and rotation.

My favorite works are perhaps the Dreamlines by Leonardo Solaas, which you can play a role in creating yourself:

Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.


The control over the artwork exerted by these artists is at quite a high, conceptual level. Their algorithms are tuned for a class of data, not for specific data point by point. In this way it is unlike, say, an abstract painter adapting each gesture to the previous one, which might have owed some part to chance but is henceforth a fixed reality.

What do you think of this approach and these works?