Vlatko Čerić
www.vceric.net  

Pulsation
Algorithmic animation, 2009

Čerić's works belong into the category of computer-generated abstract, mostly geometrical art. His algorithmic art problematizes the dichotomies of determinism and randomness, linearity and non-linearity, simplicity and complexity, as well as their influence on art. In his work Pulsation (2009), an abstract animation represents a pulsing rhythm—like the pulsation of a heart or a series of breaths—slowing down for the final part of the pulsation cycle and then accelerating in the beginning of the next one, reminiscent of a sinusoidal change of speed. In the transition stage between two pulses the image degrades and transforms into an animated network of black and red rectangles arranged in the pattern of a chessboard. The animation falls into the category of algorithmic art, being generated through the execution of the previously described algorithms, which were coded in the Mathematica programming system.