[Talk] Compositions in Motion: Capturing Time Through Generative Interaction #42
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Chinatown.js Talk Submission
Talk Title:
Compositions in Motion: Capturing Time Through Generative Interaction
Talk Description:
“The programs had no end point and could run indefinitely. I would watch the changing image until I saw a composition I liked.”
- Harold Cohen, creator of AARON
This talk explores the poetic intersection of computation, composition, and human perception. I’ll share a web-based platform I built where simple geometric elements evolve continuously through algorithmic rules. The piece visualizes time as an invisible yet ever-moving field; one that users can momentarily capture through small gestures like clicking or moving the cursor.
Through this evolving digital canvas, I reflect on how generative systems echo our own presence in time: always changing, occasionally interrupted, and briefly crystallized in moments of attention. The talk will weave together computational drawing, real-time visualization, and the human impulse to frame beauty within flux.
Name:
Noushin Radnia
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https://www.noushin.xyz