Ideogenetic Machine
Nova Jiang
Ideogenetic Machine is an interactive installation that projects the visitor inside a generative comic strip. The viewer’s image is captured in real time and directly transformed into a “line-drawing” style of picture.
Empty speech bubbles are integrated in the story so that viewers can write their own dialogue after the experience. The comic strip they create is then sent to them by email. Each viewer thus becomes the creator and actor in their own comic strip.
Born in 1985 in Dalian, China, and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand, Nova Jiang now lives and works in New York, USA. She graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2007 and the University of Los Angeles (Design Media Arts) in 2009.
Her installations invite people to participate creatively in a hands-on way, with interactions giving free rein to improvisation and an obviously joyous disorder.
Ideogenetic Machine received an honourable mention in the Prix Ars Electronica in 2012.
Ideogenetic Machine is an interactive installation that projects the visitor inside a generative comic strip. The viewer’s image is captured in real time and directly transformed into a “line-drawing” style of picture. The software developed by Nova Jiang produces never-repeating compositions thanks to a set of rules that imitate the human decision-making of a comic strip author.The drawing is created live and is made up of portraits processed by algorithms as well as elements of randomly chosen stories from a database of drawings. These story elements are drawn by the artist herself, most often illustrating speculative stories based on real facts and contemporary events. Once finished, the comic strip is automatically sent to participants by email. They are then free to invent dialogue for their story by filling in the empty speech bubbles provided. By experimenting with this work, each viewer becomes the author and actor in their own comic strip.
NOVA JIANG
Born in 1985 in Dalian, China, and brought up in Auckland, New Zealand, Nova Jiang now lives and works in New York, USA. She graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2007 and the University of Los Angeles (Design Media Arts) in 2009.
Her installations invite people to participate creatively in a hands-on way, with interactions giving free rein to improvisation and an obviously joyous disorder. Ideogenetic Machine received an honourable mention in the Prix Ars Electronica in 2012.
www.novajiang.com
