alorenz, Berlin/Vienna | Tweed [2002/2008]
tweed: 1847 (perhaps as early as 1831), a trade name said to have developed from a misreading of ‘tweel’, Scottish variant of ‘twill’, “cloth woven in parallel diagonal lines”.
Derived from ‘Untitled (Mutek 2002)’, a generative application written in Max/MSP. The basic principle of it is that of a broken dotmatrix printer: a small irregular pattern is written line by line in gradually shifting colours, and due to a programming error – a wrong offset in its local matrix – slowly-changing interferences emerge where the pattern overwrites itself.
Sitting at a mid-point between formalism and expressionism, Vienna-based designer Angela Lorenz's graphic works have been described as a form of "digital minimalism that suggests a [new] laptop aesthetic".
Her works are often systems-inspired, however, each allows enough flexibility for individuality and creativity of approach.
Lorenz stresses that while her work may be systems-based, it refuses to be systems-restricted. In her own words: "The system is not the aim, merely the basis; a map or set of coordinates which defines or acts as a guiding principle and nothing more."