Adam Herst is a Toronto based artist, arts manager, and technology consultant. He is interested in the tension between ideas, their ownership, and their reproduction, and in exploring the proposition that ideas which are designed for dissemination will be disseminated. When Adam isn't creating art, he helps arts organizations and other non-profits make the most of their investments in technology.
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"Interaction of Colour" in p5.js is an ongoing project in which I respond to the exercises in Josef Albers' Interaction of Color.
The book "Interaction of Color" is a record of an experimental way of studying color and of teaching color.
The table of contents shows the order
in which exercises usually lead our investigation.Each exercise is explained and illustrated —
not to give a specific answer,
but to suggest a way of study.
If one says "Red" (the name of a color)
and there are 50 people listening,
it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds.What does this show?
First, it is hard, if not impossible, to remember distinct colors.
Second, the nomenclature of color is most inadequate.
We are able to hear a single tone.
But we almost never ... see a single color unconnected and unrelated to other colors.
Colors present themselves in continous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions.
Paper provides innumberable colors in a large range of shades and tints ready for immediate use.
To begin the study of how color deceives and how to make use of this, the first exercise is
to make one and the same color look different.As a practical study we ask that 2 small rectangles of the same color and the same size be placed on large grounds of very different color.