Radical Art is a website powered by Remko Scha, Professor of Computational Linguistics. Faculty of Humanities & Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. This website is a sort of mediateca with diverse contents, a little disorderly but very usefull and with that aesthetic of the late 90s websites which that does that each fragment of information become a species of archaeological remainder of the media. Remko, and colaborators, Jos de Bruin and Jochem van der Spek, have collected information since 2001 under the premise of an analytical anthology of radical art and meta art.
In this website, we can find curious collections of different concepts such as destruction, kinetics, algorithms, etc related with art. In this collection of information I focus in which they called algorithm art, and specifically, how is used the “grid” in different art forms. They divided it into two sections: the grid in modern painting and the grid in algorithmic art. You can check the information here
It is very interesting as Sébastien Truchet already created repetitive patterns in the year 1704, an images that reminds me so much to a digital environment. In this sense wouldit be interesting to know if his compositions have some chance of reading if we compare them to the 3D barcodes images of today (in spite of the fact that the reading be erroneous).
Sébastien Truchet works on plane coverage used a single tile that could be rotated in the four main directions.
Later work of François Morellet. 1958.
Different examples of artwork in which the grid is present.
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