Sketch 0000574 / Nature Series

“Much of my work in the nineties involved experimenting with math and human motion — back when computers were terribly underpowered. So it required me to make new technologies that went beyond what was available at the time. 0000574 is from a series of early sketches that led to my 2005 one-man show at Fondation Cartier. It was rendered on a network of ten Mac minis that once sat atop my desk as a ‘miniature render farm.’ It ran custom software I’d written to turn my pencil sketches into animations that would take an entire evening to generate.” John Maeda is an American technologist and product experience leader. In his early career, Maeda was an MIT research professor in computational design and helped redefine electronic media and computer programming as a tool for artistic expression. His work is in the permanent collections of the MoMA, SFMoMA and Cartier Foundation. Verisart certified: https://verisart.com/works/john-maeda-0cac6e1c-72b3-412f-94bd-12d9adf96e5a