Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see The Okto cabinet is a 1st generation computer designed cabinet still showing the pixel and geometry that is used to create it’s organic form and colour. All computer-drawn designs are created from geometry and pixel. What may seem like a organic round shape, is when zoomed in, constructed from a large sequence of geometry, also known as polygons. The more pixels and geometry can be used to make us see the image as real as possible.
The cabinet is inspired on the transformative characteristics of an octopus. The octopus is a master in fool-ing whatever is looking at him and reminds us that there is more information there than what meets the eye. The Octopus can change their skin tone to match their surrounding, rendering them nearly invisible. It uses the colours and textures from its environment to create a pigment pattern on its skin to blend in.
The cabinet links the digital world to our physical world by reflecting it’s environment from the roman empire to the renaissance, from baroque to the modern age. The first cabinet shows Okto in its original geometry and pixel, from here the cabinet will show 8 transformations through art-history, where it uses the colours, materials and textures that where iconic for those time-periods to create a pigment pattern to blend in.
