Key Takeaways:
- Constraints (like no AI) can fuel creativity.
- Learning a new skill changes how I think about existing tools.
In a group project we worked on posters reflecting the presence of AI in everyday life and we created three posters that reflect on how we use AI and set ourselves the challenge: no AI allowed in the creation process. We decided to animate something using creative coding in processing (not my favorite program or tool in general) and the learning curve was steep, but I wanted to understand how much control I have when designing something from with code from scratch. I didn’t know what I was doing at first, but that was part of the fun. This didn’t work the way I wanted, so I looked for already existing code snippets and integrated (and changed) those instead.
This became less about the final design and more about the process, which also relates to motorsport, where everything is fine-tuned and engineered. Could my thesis challenge the assumption that high-tech always means better design? Could slower, more manual methods lead to more meaningful visuals?
The thing I know now is that processing is a powerful tool if you know how to code, but its too much to learn for me to use for my master project.
