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"A Letter Tree With Hanging Fruits" is a symbolic tree that grows 26 different fruits, with each name starting with a letter from the English alphabet. The computer program uses the tree structure, an abstract data structure used to store, retrieve and represent hierarchical information. The information, in this case, a list containing the words of the fruits, is processed hierarchically by recursion, an algorithmic procedure that constantly calls upon itself until an exit condition is met.
to how the program's outputs are being rendered interactively in the console, they are witnessing a tangible interplay of the subjects.
I've been ruminating how I see my work situates in the broad category of text-based art, defining approaches can help: computational, conceptual, and visual; and artist are not seeing them as mutually exclusive and tend to lean towards their likings. I looked up the writer of this essay, they specified their field as "concerned with examining typographic engagements and acts of publishing in practices of 1960s/70s conceptual art". This background helps a lot. Élika enlightened me as she speaks of Ulises Carrión as a pre-computer text artist looking at structures, that "you can easily think that if he has a computer in the 80s he would do something with it". Robert Smithson's illustrations also opens my thoughts on pre-computer structure and text.
On the other hand, with availability of computers today, text artists make a decision to lean towards a particular approach, or compose their unique blend of several approaches. If I devise programmatic workflow that present my text visually intriguing, then it's combining the computational and visual qualities in a meaningful way.
onebigear
3 years ago