KIOSK: Driessens & Verstappen
Driessens & Verstappen (NL)
Breed 1.2, 2007
Three stainless steel sculptures, 74 x 74 x 74 mm each
Collection of the artists
Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen have worked together since 1990, using computers to develop artificial worlds with self-organizing qualities. Breed, for example, is a series of sculptures generated by a computer program that uses artificial evolution. The purpose of each growth is to generate by cell division from a single cell a detailed form that can be materialized. On the basis of selection and mutation a code is gradually developed that best fulfills this "fitness" criterion and thus yields a workable form. Breed 1.2 (since 2007) uses rapid-prototyping techniques in order to automatize the entire creative process, from design to execution. Some works of this series were recently acquired by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Driessens & Verstappen (NL) is part of the KIOSK-gallery, curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta.
