C.k Chuang’s Digital Art Works-The Replacement Of Realities With Digital Mutants

Based on the computational technologies, Designer/Artist Che-Kuang Chuang creates a series of complex graphics and sculptures named “Spatial Science” through CG software and 3d printing.

For Chuang, the internal logic and design process is even more important than the final outcome. He is fascinated in the idea of using digital-making object to replace the original ones from daily supplies or classical artworks. Through replacement, the original objects ware given new meanings and context meanwhile turned the realities into a surreal world. Each piece of the objects is based on one unique algorithm in order to generate wired, unique also beautiful geometries.

In “Fontana’s Game”, Chuang re-imagines painter Lucio Fontana’s work in a digital way. Fontana breaks the boundary between 2d and 3d space by cutting through canvas, and in Chuang’s work he tries to keep developing this idea. Through Maya software, Chuang re-created Fontana’s scars of canvas in digital space and used them to do the fluid simulation. During the simulation, the fluid particles passed through the scars and generated sophisticated geometries. In the end the final form truly broke the boundaries of 2d and 3d space, flowed into the real world and becomes complex, beautiful objects. Meanwhile during the fabrication of sculpture based on the fluid forms, the mechanical movements of 3d printer became a new type of painting actions in a 3d way. For Chuang, the final result has become a new representation for painting in the digital era.

The project “Digital Blossom(Gestalt’s Game )” aims to replace the daily supplies with the digital object to create surreal views. It started from one simple computer command ”offset” , which can be seen very often in all CAD/CAAD programs. At the very early stage the project began from one simple 2-dimensions wireframe square. Then with multiple repetitions of command “offset”, the 2d wireframe has become one 3d-object. During the process, it started to mutant with itself because of the misfits during the repeating offset-commands. This kind of misfits made the form has much more details inside, just like the natural organics. Meanwhile it became one typological system which had different geometrical language but still shared the same gene. In the end it has become one beautiful, artificial flower but with wired mutants inside, turns the ordinary flower arrangement works into a surreal realities.

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