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Blockware, 2023

Generative Visual / Creative Coding

Blockware animated ceramic vessel

Blockware reinterprets traditional Korean ceramics as modular digital blocks, exploring how digital media transforms cultural objects through abstraction and motion.

Role

Concept / Generative Visual Design / Creative Coding / Motion Editing

Medium

Generative Visual / Pixelated Tiles / Animated GIF / Digital Image

Tools

Processing / Generative AI / Premiere Pro

Concept

This project visualizes the intersection of tradition and technology by reconstructing a Korean ceramic vessel through digital blocks. The familiar form of pottery is transformed into pixel-like tiles, blurring the line between realism and abstraction, heritage and reinterpretation.

Blockware pixelated ceramic animation 1 Blockware pixelated ceramic animation 2

Process

Generative AI was used to create the base ceramic imagery. A custom script in Processing then transformed the images into modular pixelated tiles that scatter, disperse, and reassemble through motion.

Visual Outcome

The final work deconstructs and reimagines cultural heritage through a digital material language, combining ceramic form, modular systems, and visual distortion.

Blockware pixelated ceramic animation 1 Blockware pixelated ceramic animation 2