By rendering geological formations as visualised numerical data, I am attempting to give a visibility – both metaphorically and structurally – to the algorithmic nature of geology and to the complex interactions that go into forming the landscape around us. Real world processes such as erosion or deposition have been canonically represented digitally using various species of activator/inhibitor algorithms. These systems can create an emergence that encapsulates the idea of pancomputationalism – that is the philosophical view that the entire physical universe is a computing system, where every physical process (like a rock, cell, or galaxy) can be described as a computation.

Continuing my exploration into the aesthetics of concrete poetry, combined with the generative manipulation of text, Geomodulo seeks to hack perception by presenting fragmentary forms and surfaces using only a reductionist palette of glyphs and numbers. In the absence of photographic granularity or three-dimensional models, perception attempts to complete the puzzle of representation. The aesthetic of this series hinges upon how we work with these gaps of missing data at different scales and different distances of reference.

Paul Prudence