e30d #10 − The Flow Fields (Fidenza)
Object: Fidenza #479
Artist: Tyler Hobbs
Owner: Curated Fund
Date: February 2024
Fidenza, the pioneering generative art collection by artist Tyler Hobbs, is symbolic of the way code can leverage rules-based systems to mirror the mysteries and mathematical properties of the natural world. The collection's core compositional principle lies in the flow field algorithm. The algorithm's adaptability, allowing for adjustments in turbulence, curve lengths, and angles, exemplifies the type of granularity precision — and randomness — that can be achieved with code-based work.
Nature and machines are often pitted against one another – rooted in a view that the efficiency gains sought by humans run counter to the order of the natural world. And yet, with any application of critical thinking, time and time again machine and nature prove to be ever exchanging and referencing the other, often down to the smallest unit of measurement.
In this way, Fidenza can best be understood as both an emergent product of nature and of finely-tuned mathematics — a true conversation between human and machine.
