WAWAA is a creative collaborative founded by Alex Warr and Zach Walters that makes generative art and design.Their code-based generative works arrange simple elements, such as lines and arcs, on a grid to produce abstract compositions.,WAWAA has released long-form generative projects on Art Blocks and the pen-plotter platform Plottables.,
Timepiece, released on Art Blocks on August 7, 2021, comprises 500 dynamic figures generated as clocks that run in real time. Each figure's form is produced by the positions of its clock hands, which appear when clicked to reveal the piece's underlying mechanics, and its thumbnail reflects the time at which it was purchased. Proceeds from the project were partly directed to environmental and humanitarian charities.
In Freehand, an algorithm extrudes and renders three basic elements — horizontal lines, diagonal lines, and arcs — in one of three stroke types modeled on pen, flat brush, and round brush marks. The project grew out of a wish to generate digital images with the texture and irregularity of hand-drawn work, even though no hand is involved in making them.Brickwork, released on the pen-plotter platform Plottables on March 9, 2022, continued this compositional exploration by translating some of Freehand's arc arrangements into three-dimensional brick walls, modeled digitally and rendered with a pen plotter. Where Freehand's arcs and lines evoke spaces and objects on a flat picture plane, Brickwork gives them mass, turning the same forms into structures that define architectural space.