mimi yin asked us to do this in icm_class-1:
Write a blog post about how computation applies to your interests, due 24 hours before the next class. This could be a subject you’ve studied, a job you’ve worked, a personal hobby, or a cause you care about. What projects do you imagine making this term? What projects do you love? (You can review and contribute to the ICM Inspiration Wiki page).
response:
when I think about the world, i imagine a system — many organisms perpetually interact with one-another, each governed by its own set of rules, collectively unpredictable & complex; with the occasional sprinkle of universal noise. my artistic practice is wholly devoted towards the pursuit of understanding and representing this semi-ordered nature of the world.
from itp personal statement, 2024.
my work is inspired by wonder, and expressed via logic; making computation central to the themes of my work. i want to break everything — from (biologically) micro-interactions to (sociologically) complex ones — into appreciable systems of logic that poke other people to wonder too. this act of reification helps me situate myself in the world — moving closer towards some version of absolute truth.
computation doesn’t apply to my interest(s) — it is the medium through which my voice is carried to other people.