Biography
Biography
Biography
PROJECTS
DIAA AHMEDIEN
Recycling the Future
Approaches to Processing Waste
Eco-friendly hand printing + eco-friendly digital environment
July 2021
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Artists residency's final project.
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Host: Proyecto´ace, Artist-in-Residence International Program
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Programming languages: Java Script
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Another genre of practices: Hand printing
Documentation:
>> Proyecto´ace.
>> AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.
Supported sustainable development goals:
EXPERIMENT
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During the initial phase of the residency, I coded a series of glowing smudges to investigate random processes and the likelihood of constructing layered paintings on the web, which serves as a dynamic digital canvas. The discussion focused on how certain lines of code can create a purely intuitive sense of painting or color smudges.
During the final stage of the residency, I engaged in discussions with my cohort mates, Rachel and Lorena, about how we could establish a shared set of principles for eco-friendly practices, despite our diverse range of practices. While Rachel and Lorena use recycled nature material in their hand-printed artworks, I thought about how data recycling can serve to build an eco-friendly digital canvas on the web page. This is why I digitally archived Rachel and Lorena's hand-printed artworks to determine how many detailed frames they need and how much memory and power they will consume compared to my original digital drawing. Therefore, archiving manuals to digital format may require more space and power than archiving digital to digital.
ABOUT
“Recycling the Future” is a mixed-media generative artwork carried out to investigate the concept of the process of waste management and how it may look like in the future. Our idea combines our three works into a digital environment to present Rachel’s print on paper made with invasive plants (as a natural waste), Lorena's biopolymer-based printed artwork (as a biowaste), and Diaa’s digital artwork (as a digital waste).
On this page Rachel, Lorena, and Diaa’s artworks are continuously rebuilt digitally in order to calculate how many frames are taken to archive our visual data in the three pieces. The browser here is not only a host of the three pieces, but is mainly a medium by which the three pieces sustainably grow and renew themselves.
The entire process raises a critical question regarding the amount of energy consumed to save every bit of data waste. Consuming such an amount results in increased carbon emissions, thermal pollution, and water consumption by the cooling systems. This sheds light on the cons of digital transformation. But this is not to be against the future's digital transformation, it is to think of how to overcome tomorrow's digital pollution.
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MORE INFO
Artists:
>> Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien
Lecturer of new-media arts, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Egypt.
Professor in charge of the lithography research and experimentation workshop National University of arts, Argentina. Co-director AMA Argentine multiple arts.
Associate Professor of printmaking at the University of Louisville, USA.
This artwork has been carried out as the final project of the virtual residence "Together Apart—#FUTURE" organized by FUNDACIÓN´ACE PARA EL ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO
AI & Society:
Knowledge, Culture and Communication
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