Nick Larson [MFA 2022, Graphic Design]
// Nick Larson’s drawings are an ongoing collaboration between code, software, machines, and the artist.
const NickLarsonsDrawings = {
description: “No drawing is the result of artistic gesture or automated process alone.”,
initialize: function() {
// Each drawing begins as either JavaScript or human gesture,
// and is then modified, re-arranged, or recombined by the other.
return “Drawings initialized with both coded instructions and human input.”;
},
celebrate: function() {
// The drawings nervously celebrate humanity’s relationship with automation and technology
// in an age when artistic agency is increasingly inhibited by automated systems and structures.
return “Celebrating the tension between creative autonomy and technological influence.”;
}
};
// Example usage:
NickLarsonsDrawings.initialize();
NickLarsonsDrawings.celebrate();
NickLarsonsDrawings.question();
NickLarsonsDrawings.integrate();
NickLarsonsDrawings.interrogate();
NickLarsonsDrawings.recombine();
NickLarsonsDrawings.permute();