Jake Tan / Computational object / 2026
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01 / The project
Artist’s note
Algorithms are representations of the mechanisms through which we engage with physical reality, metaphysical mathematical models, and digital universes. As a new media artist, I have always been fascinated by how algorithms become containers for tools—and, in an artist’s hands, instruments for making, altering, and generating images. We watch algorithms be visually presented as static forms or unfold in real time, usually on screens, hidden behind computer interfaces and silicon, running out of sight beneath the display.
With LEDS GO 8, I want to bring these processes to the surface by giving them a physical body. An 8 × 8 matrix reduces an image to sixty-four points of light: a limited space in which an algorithm can move, repeat, interfere, reorganise, and evolve.
The LEDS GO series provides a platform for algorithms to become vectors of behaviour, made for the simple act of watching computation happen.
128 unique editions — each stored ID gives the same eight behaviours a distinct base hue and pace.
02 / 8 Algorithmic behaviours
Interference
Two moving wave sources meet across the grid. Their overlap makes curved bands and shifting seams. A small field that can read as rings, crossings, or a moving surface.
I = ½[cos(1.45r₁ − t) + cos(1.45r₂ + t)]
Source / lineageWave superposition, from Huygens through Young.
03 / Device
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Drag to turn the model. Select a component to locate it.
04 / Collector tools
Use USB-C to inspect the object’s edition ID, permanent seed, case finish, hardware profile, and current algorithm state.
Read-only: the panel does not change the device.