---
post_type: "project"
link: "https://archive.amir.cloud/2001_a_space_odyssey_round_1"
title: 2001 a space odyssey / poster series
blurb: "An early poster series made with a visual feedback loop — a camera filming the screen it feeds, so the work designs itself."
chapter: "Early work · KABK · 2013–2016"
org: kabk
tags:
    - generative poster
    - alternative tool
year:
    - 2013
---
[2001_a_space_odyssey_round_1](https://archive.amir.cloud/2001_a_space_odyssey_round_1)
[2001_a_space_odyssey_round_2](https://archive.amir.cloud/2001_a_space_odyssey_round_2)
[2001_a_space_odyssey_round_3](https://archive.amir.cloud/2001_a_space_odyssey_round_3)
[2001_a_space_odyssey_round_4](https://archive.amir.cloud/2001_a_space_odyssey_round_4)

This was an early poster assignment, set by [Susana Carvalho](http://carvalho-bernau.com), done over four iterations. While researching it I kept circling recursive loops, and I found out that one famous sequence in the film built its sound from an audio feedback loop — a speaker picking up the sound it was making.

So instead of drawing the posters, I built a system that would. The setup is a typographic layer of the film's title as the starting input, a TV screen showing the output, and a camera feeding that output back in. I was already more interested in designing the process than the artifact — leaning on a small system to do the work — which is close to how I think about building software now.