“River’s Edge” Takuya Yamauchi, 2020. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Art Gallery
River’s Edge is the title of a series of collage artworks created from images obtained via the Internet through the medium of generative programming. In this series of images, the artist used a keyword associated with his childhood memory “River’s Edge” to conduct an in-depth search for and gather associated images, which he then assembled into vivid and visually appealing collages. In the River’s Edge artwork, blue, gray, and green sections of the collected images were associated with water, stone, and sky. Pieces from hundreds of images were extracted from the Internet in data form, processed, and emplaced in the images. The creative process was based on an algorithm that examined the collected images, extracted appealing sections, subjected them to a limited set of modifications, and then emplaced them into the artwork. Although the algorithm’s functionalities are limited to magnification, rotation, and choosing the areas to extract from the collected imagery, the process made it possible to create a wide variety of collages. In the numerous trials that were conducted to develop this art form, several new expressions were identified, and many beautiful patterns were created.
