Prácticas artísticas con software libretaller arte generativo y alimentos

Abstract

In 2015, on January 10, 17 and 20, The Generative Art and Food workshop: designing with Processing, was held in the facilities of the Telefónica Foundation and the Faculty of Fine Arts of The Complutense University of Madrid. The objective was to extract some of the patterns that occur in food and nature to generate images by using Processing, a programming language in an integrated development environment that usually serves the development of multimedia projects, inserted in the free software technology. The result was generative designs and repetition structures that generated a pattern, to be later printed on canvas using permeographic techniques. The article aims to show the processes of creation in artistic practice, through an innovative workshop for the exhibition context where it was made. The practice showed how creativity within an avant-garde environment such as haute cuisine chef Ferran Adrià, must adapt to the changing reality and the development of new technologies. In every creative process, specific technological skills are combined with the expressive abilities of the artist. For this purpose, the open source program Proccesing was used as a creation tool, whose growing progress in free software initiatives is becoming increasingly evident in artistic practice and teaching research.