www.jenlewart.com

My work focuses on the intersections between natural and artificial; man and machine. Using a playful, faux-science narrative I develop my ideas by creating lo-fi machines which mimic the functions of their natural counterpart.

''Vibrobot Swarm' is a collective of small, generative-art machines with semi emergent behavioural properties. Each Vibrobot works autonomously in an attempt to put their individual mark upon the world; collectively  a shared artistic outcome emerges from their repeated strokes upon the surface they work on.

Through this piece I aim to question the entire notion of creativity and what, exactly, it means to be an 'author'. Is it possible for a machine to be capable of either of these traits, traits which are normally only associated with a living entity?