Mosaic Line Abstract

2021

Print (Digital)

Print on vinyl

Description

Mosaic Line Abstract belongs to Charles Csuri’s Infinity series and reflects a late stage of his ongoing investigation into space and movement through computer graphics. As in his early work, Csuri explored how form can be generated, displaced, and reconfigured, though here he did so with far more advanced computational resources at his disposal. The resulting complexity makes clear that the work could not be produced by hand alone. It emerges from an active collaboration between artist and computer.

Despite the availability of increasingly flexible and user-friendly tools for 3D modeling and motion graphics, Csuri continued to rely on text-based algorithms in a Unix environment to generate his images. Lines were produced within virtual 3D space, then extracted, fragmented, and reorganized into a mosaic. This translation from 3D space to 2D surface collapses depth into pattern.

As in earlier projects, Csuri positioned himself as both programmer and editor, shaping the system in advance and selecting the results that became the final work.

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