I present here some of my generative interactive drawings, as a result of human–machine interaction. In this process algorithms are modified while running by using interactive programming and patching environments. These abstract forms have become free of their logical content, compositions with a high degree of independence from visual references in the world, in the quest for the purity of abstraction as a clear aesthetic practice.
I see the whole process of creation as a form of dynamic meditation, and this is also the state of mind I try to foster and trigger with my abstract works. Gaze requires concentration and tends towards a complete absorption of the attention, allowing the mind to enter a meditative state. Such state of mental emptiness, which is that of the monk and the samurai, gives us strength and determination, then allows us to act free from fear and conditioning, and brings us to change. It makes us actively participate in the changes inside and outside of ourselves, through the flowing of time.
Algorithms have become ubiquitous in our society but not to ensure a more equitable and sustainable future, nor do they serve the common good. They are mostly profit-oriented, exploiting the many for the benefit of the few. They are being put in place with minimal oversight, few accountability mechanisms, and little research about their ongoing social and economic impacts. But there is another side of the algorithms that I try to embody in my work: I use them to create beauty, meditation and call to action. The use of technology obliges us to have a critical look at it, to have a significant socio-political goal to question the underlying moral implications of technology, to reorient the cultural potential of the computer to transform the social order.