Biología Virtual
(Virtual Biology)
Woven by Oscar Huarancca Gutiérrez
Designed by Evan Young-Walentine
Dimensions: 48" x 97"
Number of Colors: 4
Medium: Hand-spun alpaca wool
Completed: 2008
Price: $3,100
The mysterious workings of the human mind were as intriguing to the early inhabitants of the Andes as to us today. Where modern science has pulled back the veil on many aspects of the biological mind, artificial intelligence has opened up immense new territories for these mysteries to abound. This piece displays a simply derived effect that I discovered while meandering along on a digital walk. Two identical overlapping images form a new image, but this depends on the level of zoom, i.e. the number of pixels, as well as the algorithms the computer uses to condense the image to the reduced size. One occurrence was this, which has the natural curves of a coca leaf or a feather, even though it was born of hard mechanical lines. The leaf is broken into four regions, each having a nucleus from which more leaves radiate. The gold and white highlights have more artistic freedom, adding a humanized depth.
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