onformative is a Berlin-based studio for digital art and design founded in 2010 by Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer. https://onformative.com
AI Sculpting – The unpredictable strategies and outcomes of co-creation
Imagined as a tool to provide assistance to a conventional approach to sculpting, here an AI model is developed to seek out strategies that provide a constant improvement to how a given form is achieved. By feeding it with different tools, rules a...
true/false – The audio/visual choreography of an algorithm
Created by Berlin based onformative, true/false is a kinetic sculpture comprised of arrays of circular black metal segments set in mechanical columns. Interlocking and rotating around fluorescent light tubes, the cylinders cover or expose the ligh...
Pathfinder – Generative geometry as a creative impulse
Created by Princemio in collaboration with onformative, the Pathfinder project was created with aim to contribute to the creative processes of choreographic development.
4010 Facebook Tree by Onformative
Onformative bring online discussions back into the 4010-Store by developing a data visualisation generated from all their Facebook posts.
Google Faces – Searching Earth using facial detection
Created by Onformative, Google Faces is a an independent searching agent created in openFrameworks that hovers the world to spot all the faces that are hidden on earth.
“Generative Design” – A Computational Design Guidebook
"The main change in the design process achieved by using generative design is that traditional craftsmanship recedes into the background, and abstraction and information become the new principal elements."
“unnamed soundsculpture” by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer / Kinect
Produced by onformative and chopchop the "unnamed soundsculpture" is a project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer, building from the simple idea of creating a moving sand sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person.
Designing Programs
Designers writing software are pushing design thinking into new areas. Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams asked a group of exceptional designers two simple questions: Why do you write code and how does this affect your design process?
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