abstract.computer


Duncan Figurski

The artist and algorithm celebrate the obfuscation of legibility // visibility in joyous and optimistic terms, using abstraction as a playful rebellion against all those things which keep us disconnected from the void.

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SELECTED WEB WORK(S) 👥


#23


YARDSALE ONLINE  Plato sat in Purgatory not because of his sins, but because Christ had not yet saved the soul of man before he perished. Visit limbo for things -Now Online. The yardsale, such a dirty affair, all those rukus memories tossed in with the tennis racket, lets clean it up on the .org. Click click, all the simulated nicities, fart smells and moth balls replicated digitally. 



#42


HOLY.REPUBLICAN  An Ongoing series darling. (WARNING: This is a planted website, it is intentionally somewhat irritating and consumes a large portion of RAM on your computer. But it’s harmless .)

Browsing Amazon I found a bizarre niche of Dog Sweaters labeled “Let’s Go Brandon.” As if the dogs knew who Joe Biden was. Seeing a wedge issue squeezed this dry for market potential was juicy. I quickly began to archive all the different republican pet merchandise I could find. My mind stretched like a condom over a basketball - there was seemingly no end. Go ahead, look it up. Amusingly boring, flagrantly apathetic. On to TPUSA and https://rondesantis.com , it seems even the can opener you own can signal your politcal orientation. I want in on the merch - but in the mean time I’ll take the words.  Big inspo Brands of Faith. 

{Technical: Markov Chains seeded from TPUSA}



#60


SONIC HEREDITY   I have often thought of the things I have inhereted. Insides of me is a pallete of different alleles, all percolating and swarming. This simulation (highly influencde by Daniel Schiffman’s Nature of Code), allows a variety of small animals to breed over a long period of time. While some of them die off, others thrive, the genetic information that is passed down in the system is reflected by the tone that each of these animals emit. The idea is to allow this system to generatively move toward creating a drone. Using a genetic algorithm the tone changes based on the sruviving traits of each generation.



#88


SPILLED OUT  My blood has been saturated with lithium for years. Sometimes it feels like someone has shaken a can of soda inside my veins. I’m not sure how I feel about it. There it is.  An interactive poem where you play with my blood. 



# 105


LEVEL2_SMOOCHER  The Nine circles of hell- permitting the things we own possess souls. A zesty way to rationalize our consumption. How then do these material spirits get recycled. Explore and excavate, take an active role in their epiration date, hold the results against your own decay.



#2


BB TYPE TIME  Typing should be louder. 



#30


CHEETO WORLD HISTORY  THE HISTORY OF CHEETOS THAT THEY’RE KEEPING FROM YOU!