Presentation

Turlon is a developer of artistic-scientific ideas, interests and activities in the field of algorithmic art with a predilection for generative painting →. He has always been attracted to the relationship between art and science and the possibility of representing in images the complex links between a generic form and the underlying abstract structure of physical-mathematical origin.

Training and activities

Born in Padua in 1955, graduated in physics and fond of mathematics, he has had work experience in the fields of information technology, expert systems and teaching. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the development of a generative software that allows to create, manage and display forms (hyperstuctures) defined in spaces with an arbitrary number of dimensions (hyperspaces). He has accompanied this activity with personal research on multi-dimensional geometric forms →, oscillative systems →, multi-dimensional functional forms →, integer-functional forms →, many-values and many-operands logical forms →, cellular-automata evolutive systems → and variational forms.

Over time, he gradually refined operative technique → and generative algorithms →, enriching the software with the management of chromatic-sound evolutions and orienting it to become a specific tool for both creating generative paintings and investigating scientific issues with the support of representation. 

Since 2011, he began to divulge his work in exhibitions and conferences →, registering interest and appreciation.

From 2017 to 2023, he suspended his artistic activities to devote himself to studies on issues related to the algorithmic simulation of perceptive structures. The theoretical concepts underlying these studies were outlined at a conference in 2023 with artistic repercussions expected during 2024.

In 2023 he authorized the possibility of downloading, exclusively from this site (Rev03a and later), the resized reproductions of some of his own artworks with the aim of sharing the beauty of generative forms and giving, to those who wish, the opportunity to rework and personalize them. Although within the qualitative limits of the downloadable files, the reproductions lend themselves to free digital reworkings capable of capturing the curiosity and stimulating the creativity of those who wish to approach and consider them.

In March 2024, his research between art and science was the subject of a Master's Degree Thesis¹ in Art History.

Artworking aspects

In his early works, he proposed examples of generative painting on canvas of geometric hyperstructures (geomtopes →) representing hyperspheres and polytopes (extensions in hyperspace of spheres and polyhedra in three-dimensional space). Subsequently, he experimented with new media and diversified themes by representing structures of differential oscillatory (oscitopes →), multi-dimensional functional (funztopes →), intero-modulative (modutopes →), many-values and many-operands logical (logitopes →) and cellular-automata evolutive (autitopes →) types. In the months of activity preceding the previously mentioned period of suspension, he devoted himself to the development of algorithms aimed at deconstruction, deformation and contamination between forms (morftopes →). Recently he has focused his interest on the representation of variationsl perceptive structures (perctopes →).

Through the sophistication of execution and the complexity of forms, Turlon's sole purpose is to explore and share examples of a physical-mathematical universe that generates itself in beauty during an intriguing research journey where one can chase curiosities, suggestions and challenges.

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