Gold Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design · 2025
Changes Cycles and Shapes Digital Art
by Yuko Suzuki
- A' Design Award 2025 Gold Winner in Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Feral File
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 205,779
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About Changes Cycles and Shapes Digital Art
This work explores the question, What is painting? by expressing the circulation of visual expressions. Inspired by transitions in Mondrian's paintings, it is based on a component diagram of painting, where shape moves between figurative and abstract, and between noise and linearity - an idea applied to color. The work evokes the shifting state of digital materiality, emphasizing that forms in between changes are the essence. By incorporating textures printed with a baren, it reflects the artist's identity as a printmaker in digital form.
Positioned at the forefront of contemporary generative and algorithmic art practice, Changes Cycles and Shapes by Yuko Suzuki represents a sophisticated investigation into the aesthetic potentials of computational processes as instruments of artistic creation. The work's twenty-eight individual compositions, presented as a unified grid, invite consideration of how digital systems might model, interpret, and transform the fundamental patterns underlying natural phenomena—from the branching architectures of river systems and neural networks to the cosmic dispersions of stellar matter and the microscopic choreographies of cellular division. Each panel appears to capture a distinct moment or state within ongoing generative processes, suggesting that the viewer witnesses not static images but frozen instances of continuous transformation. The technical achievement evident throughout demonstrates masterful control of algorithmic parameters, producing compositions that balance systematic logic with organic unpredictability, mathematical precision with aesthetic sensitivity. The chromatic range deployed across the grid reveals sophisticated understanding of color relationship principles, with each panel establishing its own harmonic identity while contributing to the collective visual experience. Thematic resonances extend toward fundamental questions of emergence, pattern, and the mathematical substrates that connect seemingly disparate scales of existence—the cosmic and the microscopic, the geological and the biological, the digital and the organic. The work participates in traditions connecting to both scientific visualization and abstract expressionist gesture, bridging analytical and intuitive modes of image-making. Viewers might contemplate how these algorithmically generated forms reflect our contemporary moment's integration of computational thinking into creative practice, while also recognizing perennial human fascination with pattern, growth, and transformation that transcends any particular technological moment.
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- Unique Properties
- Based on the question, What is painting?, this work expresses the circulation of multiple visual expressions, evoking the shifting state of digital materiality, oscillating between the concrete and the abstract. In it, it also expresses the idea that forms in between changes are the essence, and we live in a moment in change.
Furthermore, by incorporating textures printed with a baren, the artist's identity as a printmaker is incorporated in a digital form. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 1920×1080 px / 3840×2160 px, 25 seconds, 65 works
- Tags
- Generative Art, Coding
- Production Technology
- This work was created entirely in a programming language called Processing.
It is made up of animations that change from one shape to the next. - Design Challenge
- The theme of the exhibition was the inheritance of the experimental aesthetics of Hiroshi Kawano, a pioneer of Japanese computer art, so I researched Hiroshi Kawano and the history of past computer art.
I had repeated conversations with this great artist of the past to find out how to connect Kawano's work with my own experiments, and it took me a long time to dig deep into my theme and digest it. - Project Duration
- This work was exhibited at Patterns of Flow held at NEORT++ in Tokyo from September 24th to October 6th, 2024.
This exhibition was a collaboration with Right Click Save and Massage Magazine, and the works were sold on Feral File, an NFT platform. - Operation Flow
- In this animation, objects transform over time, oscillating between figurative and abstract, noise and linear. Designed to create a continuous flow of visual changes, the animation's timing and speed are adjusted to create a visually pleasing rhythm. By silently observing these changes, viewers can relate to their own lives and experiences, evoking deep empathy and emotional responses.
- Research
- This design study aims to explore how print textures can be incorporated into paintings. The researcher delved into the historical background of Hiroshi Kawano and Mondrian to explore how their style and techniques can be reflected in his own work. In terms of methodology, he took an experimental approach and researched the archives of past painters to evolve the expression of his work by combining different materials and textures.
As a result, the work is a reflection of the history of painting, and the influences of Hiroshi Kawano and Mondrian are beautifully integrated. This study proposed a new way of expression that goes beyond the boundaries of print and painting, and offered a new perspective on contemporary art. In terms of business, it made us reconsider the commercial value of art and its potential as design, and in terms of society, it allowed us to delve deeper into the historical and cultural meaning of art. - Inspiration
- In painting, shape has an axis of figurative - abstract and an axis of noise - linear, while color also has an axis of noise - linear. Based on the component diagram of painting constructed from this idea, I developed a means of cycling through multiple visual idioms at once, with the work expressing the cycle itself. This work was also inspired by the transitions in Mondrian's paintings.
- Image Credits
- Image #3: NEORT++, Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between, 2024.
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