From Noise

From Noise is an algorithmic response to the notion of the gesture, and to gestural abstraction as practiced in the 20th century. It asks what becomes of the gesture when the hand no longer directs the tools of creation, and whether the vitality associated with spontaneous mark-making can persist in a computational environment. The work explores the distinction between the “native gesture”, the marks that arise naturally from a medium, whether the dashes and dabs of Joan Mitchell or Cy Twombly or the straight lines and pixels native to code, and the “translated gesture,” in which the essence of a mark-making style is reconstructed within a domain where it does not organically belong.