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Disorder (2006)

Project type

Generative Art. New Media Installation: Custom software, projector, PC, fabric, and wood

Date

2006

Size

80 x 60 x 40 inches
Variable size

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“I remember nothing” - Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures

"Out of disorder comes the deepest order” - Albert Einstein

Disorder is a generative code-based work that draws one line at a time, layering them until a shifting topographical field emerges. Each cycle produces a unique landscape, echoing mountain ridges, seismic patterns, sound waves, or the trace of a beating heart.

The work invites us to see rhythm in disruption: order unfolding through disorder, and disorder giving rise to unexpected form. By translating code into living line, Disorder meditates on the relationship between technology, body, and nature. It oscillates between the mechanical and the organic, suggesting that every system, whether biological or digital - generates its own pulse, its own terrain of becoming.

A subtle reference to Joy Division’s iconic Unknown Pleasures album cover; derived from pulsar radio waves - anchors the work within a cultural lineage where sound, signal, and image converge. In this space, data becomes rhythm, and rhythm becomes landscape.

© 2025 by Shirley Shor

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