Title: "Code Vera Code" Artist: Perpetual Motion Medium: Generative Art, JavaScript, P5 Platform: fxhash Date: Sep 2023

Generative artworks are rooted in code, but the code is invisible. Buried. Behind Ctrl-U.

"Code Vera Code" breaks this hold-up. The code that steers generative artworks is as important as its visual output. Code has its own shape, narrative and aesthetics. Code has the power to amaze both the developers and the layman alike.

It’s time to open the hood. It’s time to admire the mechanics. It’s time to put side by side the code and the generated art.

“Code Vera Code”, is a generative artwork where the program prints itself on the canvas in harmony with the abstract visual art that is displayed. In “Code Vera Code”, the public experiences the true essence of generative art, by seeing both the code and the visual.

Graphically, the piece is rooted in Molnar’s style, while the code’s lineage goes back to Lisp metaprogramming and Forrest for program variations.

Ctrl-U here be dragons.