Please come to class on
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
prepared to share an art piece that responds to the Prompt:

POETIC, UNCERTAIN

Documentation due to the course website by
Friday, February 06, 2026 @ 11:59PM

SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION:

Use code to make something that is poetic (meaning expressive, beautiful or emotional) and uncertain (nondeterministic, generative, randomized)

e.g., a website that is different everytime it loads, or that changes depending on how someone interacts with it.

EXAMPLE:

Roni Kaufman's Portrait Robot

everything in Taper

Allison Parrish’s website (and much of her work)

Epitaph | Remecarving by Max Kreminski

The Writer(')s Project by Alex Calderwood

The Sound of Love by Chia Amisola

vid.mov

Title: Where it tore, it grew

Name: Laya Mathikshara Mathialagan

Code Links: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PYk6HFQ8nfaKMl7OQxJ9Z3Nri3nLrR2s?usp=sharing

Final Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Btf64ttc1NmremBHJQjKTYQEZcAk0sY/view?usp=drive_link

Start of the web game

Main menu where you can explore different settings

Title: Chaotic Reset

Name: Prajanya Kannan

Code Links: https://github.com/praju-the-programmer2028/chaotic-reset

https://editor.p5js.org/prajanya_js_designs/sketches/zLU87jLo0

Final Video: https://youtu.be/ud50Yu5CiWY

Normal Setting

RBG degradation + words pop up (after a few clicks)

Now, RGB will degrades till fully dark grey and will end of word generation until you have to manually reset

Woah! A surprise attack at the end (in this case, it's a flood.)

Why this piece? When reading Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, or Brave New World, the citizens believe their environment is safe until they keep digging to find cracks in their perceived reality. Taking inspiration from the dystopic novels and games like Roblox, slither.io, and Game of Poems for hours on end. I made a game where the overall settings like home, forest, etc would still until you keep clicking to find chaotic words and elements appear, move, and change drastically. I used p5.js to exactly capture the raw sketches and RGB degradation. Just as characters in a novel or game keep getting curious about the world they are in, users here are forced to see what's beneath the "perfect" surface: the raw, unforgiving, and degrading reality. Hence, why it is a computational poetry. The visuals and words mesh to create messy, yet intricate art!

sounds of the moon

Title: Sounds of the Moon

Please come to class on Tuesday, February 03, 2026 prepared to share an art piece that responds to the Prompt:

POETIC, UNCERTAIN

Documentation due to the course website by Friday, February 06, 2026 @ 11:59PM

Name: Laya Mathikshara Mathialagan

Name: Prajanya Kannan

Name: Michaela Mae Medel

Name: Vina Le

Name: Smokey Child

Name: Dylan Pearson

Name: Rachel Yang

Name: Joanna Le

Name: Sebastian Pereyra, Ramiro Contreras

Name: Brian Su

Name: Kira Pan

Name: Vanessa Ngai

Name: Abby Wang

Name: Elaine (El) Liu

Name: Vivian Wall

Name: Nigel Weiss

Name: Nidhii Marar

Name: Ashley Kwak (worked with Aashna Patel)

Name: Caden Li

Name: Srimayi Gupta

Name: Noah Molina

Name: Maya Nalliah

Name: Sabrina Kuang

Name: Sophie Luk

Name: Aisha Kazi

Name: Ved Sheth

Name: Anthea Guo

napkin-ideas

Agogorecs

Name: Aashna Patel (worked with Ashley Kwak)

How Do I Submit?

Please come to class on
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
prepared to share an art piece that responds to the Prompt:

Documentation due to the course website by
Friday, February 06, 2026 @ 11:59PM