Calliope
Digital Print
2014 (made)
2014 (made)
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Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri (born 1976) is a Brazilian artist, programmer and researcher. His practice explores the development of creative coding and the application of computers for aesthetical experimentation, both practical and philosophical. The ontology of chance is a recurrent theme in his artwork.
Dr Poltronieri is currently a lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester where he is a member of IOCT (Institute of Creative Technologies) and teaches creative code in the Digital Arts. He holds a PhD in Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), Brazil, and wrote his thesis on the role of chance in computational art.
The artworks in Poltronieri’s Visual Theogonies series were inspired by the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The images were generated by a set of instructions based upon sentences taken from Hesiod’s poem ‘The Theogony’. Each work was created using the same guiding principle, but the order in which the instructions were implemented was decided by chance.
Dr Poltronieri is currently a lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester where he is a member of IOCT (Institute of Creative Technologies) and teaches creative code in the Digital Arts. He holds a PhD in Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), Brazil, and wrote his thesis on the role of chance in computational art.
The artworks in Poltronieri’s Visual Theogonies series were inspired by the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The images were generated by a set of instructions based upon sentences taken from Hesiod’s poem ‘The Theogony’. Each work was created using the same guiding principle, but the order in which the instructions were implemented was decided by chance.
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| Materials and techniques | Digital print |
| Brief description | Calliope, from the 'Visual Theogonies: images of the computational god' series, by Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri, digital print, Brazil, 2014 |
| Credit line | Given by the artist |
| Production | The software used to create this artwork was developed by the artist and written in the programming language Ruby on a Linux Box (a computer running the Linux open-source software operating system) |
| Summary | Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri (born 1976) is a Brazilian artist, programmer and researcher. His practice explores the development of creative coding and the application of computers for aesthetical experimentation, both practical and philosophical. The ontology of chance is a recurrent theme in his artwork. Dr Poltronieri is currently a lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester where he is a member of IOCT (Institute of Creative Technologies) and teaches creative code in the Digital Arts. He holds a PhD in Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), Brazil, and wrote his thesis on the role of chance in computational art. The artworks in Poltronieri’s Visual Theogonies series were inspired by the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The images were generated by a set of instructions based upon sentences taken from Hesiod’s poem ‘The Theogony’. Each work was created using the same guiding principle, but the order in which the instructions were implemented was decided by chance. |
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| Accession number | E.205-2018 |
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| Record created | December 12, 2017 |
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