Introduction
Truckenbrod uses mathematical descriptions and code to work with physically felt natural phenomena. Her 1975 algorithmic drawings later entered the Whitney collection, connecting computation with embodied experience and material making.
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Coded Algorithmic Drawings: work and context
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Work, material and process
The artist describes translating experiences of natural phenomena into algorithms and material works. Her account distinguishes drawings from 1975 from a digital textile made in 1979. Later textile techniques should not all be assigned to the initial drawing practice.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: algorithms become both formal structures and ways of articulating experience. This resists a history told only through engineering efficiency. The choice of phenomena matters alongside the writing of a program.
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Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Automated Forest.
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Date displayed for this node: 1975 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1975
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Provenance, translation & verification
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