Interdisciplinary Sculpture, 2022
Weichen Leslie Hwang is an interdisciplinary sculpture major. She also does work in printmaking and graphic design, but has had a history of painting and drawing. She has explored ideas of quantifying abstract ideas, as well as attempting to connect analog strategies to new foreign digital techniques.
Writing
Reading Responses
Systems Esthetics / Revisiting The Foundations of Network Analysis
Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public
Why I’m Afraid To Go To Costco
Contemporary / New Media / Socially Engaged (Art)
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Skill Building
A series of technical exercises build and demonstrate skills in writing algorithms with Grasshopper and related tools.
Tutorials
ModeLab
Essential Algorithms and Data Structures for Computational Design in Grasshopper
Mosquito
GraphMapper
Cool Beans / Other Forms of Play
Play
I started by playing with the populate random node in this exercise. I particularly enjoy the ‘x’ of points when they get written / drawn into Rhino (even though that isn’t revolutionary or very provocative. They just look cool.)
Tutorials
Galapagos Intro — 3
Project I: Drawings
In this first project, I created four images using numbers and had them drawn out on the Graphtec plotter. These drawings focused on multiplication and repeating patterns.
Process
Project II: Data
This project looks at the idea of creating something out of nothing and trying to understand random in the context of a system.
Process
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