Marcel Schwittlick—Composition #65

Composition #65

This series' foundation is an algorithm to re-arrange recorded cursor movements. Its composition is very simple; it merely uses a low-pass filter on the length of the cursor lines, allowing only very short lines to enter the composition.
The series's performative aspect occurred at the University of Arts Berlin Rundgang of the Generative Art class in November 2021. Live swapping pens while the machine was running revealed an unknown hardware bug in the vintage plotter, causing buffer overflows that resulted in long lines. During the performative drawing in public space, this quasi-random aspect became the central aesthetic element.

This series consists of 11 drawings of original 80s plotter pens on DIN A3 (29,7 x 42cm / 11.7 x 16.5in) Hahnemühle paper. Performed on a vintage Roland DG DPX1200 plotter.