Recurrent Llull
Text Stream 7
“Recurrent Llull” (Text Stream 7) is a recursive algorithmic animation made with the collected works of Mediterranean philosopher and polymath Ramon Llull, born in the kingdom of Majorca in 1232. Among Llull’s accomplishments was the very first symbolic machine, a series of concentric circles that could be operated to generate combinations of “elemental truths”. The mechanistic approach to knowledge influenced Leibnitz and then Babbage to make the first mechanical computers. In this piece, Llull’s writing is animated along co-linear cylindrical cogs that unpredictably become detached and even revealed not as closed loops but endless spirals. The entire flow of typography is generative and is never repeated.
General info
Spanish name:
Lulio Recurente
Year of creation:
2019
Technique:
custom generative code, computer, display
Dimensions:
216 x 35 x 8 cm, variable
Additionnal info:
“Recurrent Llull” is a recursive algorithmic animation made with the collected works of Mediterranean philosopher and polymath Ramon Llull, born in the kingdom of Majorca in 1232
Edition:
6 Editions, 2 AP
Collectors:
private collectors
Exhibitions
- EXCUSE YOU!, bitforms gallery, San Francisco, California, United States, 2023.
- All Art Is Virtual, Thoma Foundation, Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 2022 - 2023.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Caudales, Casa de México España, Madrid, Spain, 2022.
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Cercanía, Arsenal Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2020.
- Armory Show, Galería Max Estrella, New York City, New York, United States, 2020.
- ARCO ‘20, Wilde Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2020.
- Untitled Art Fair, Galería Max Estrella, San Francisco, California, United States, 2020.
- Untitled Art Fair, Galería Max Estrella, Miami, Florida, United States, 2019.
Credits
- Programming - Kitae Kim Production Assistance: Carolina Murillo Murales, Guillaume Tremblay, Matthew Palmer
