Tao-machine: Bridging Taoist Symbolic Logic and Computational Image-processing Syntaxes through the Model of Speculative Process Metaphysics
This generative art project and research take forms in the analogous analysis between western process philosophical thoughts and Chinese Taoist symbolism as an analytic-interpretive strand to investigate self-regulating moving images as automation of “creativity”, which evokes the Taoist aesthetic called “confusion”. The twofold virtual system of Tao-machine is bifurcated into two interconnected subsystems representing “Actuality” and “Potentiality” in which “Potentiality” is computed as the regulating syntaxes guided by the semantics in Taoist symbolic logic. The art project “Confused Objects” produced by Tao-machine, arouses the aestheticization of this convergent model of both western speculative process metaphysics and Taoist symbolism through a series of dynamic visual abstraction. |