This project is an investigation into generative systems of growth that have self-imposed beginnings and ends; events akin to natural occurrences defined by their platform constraints.
The Worm Project is actually a list of instructions and the result of following them is a sculptural output. Users of the system generate and print 3D cube templates, the size of which are defined by the maximum printing area of one's personal printer. One continues to print these cubes progressively smaller until the cubes became physically impossible to assemble. The larger the user's printer, the larger the initial cube, and therefore the more cubes are produced in a single execution. This provides a variable beginning with the naturally occurring end.
In the next phase, users arrange the assembled cubes following specific "if-then-else" rules. The only undefined variable of this phase is the environment, and the shape of the environment the user selects radically changes the aesthetics of the process' sculptural outcome. This is similar to nature; a process of a growth where the building blocks of an organism interact with the environment to produce shape. Watching this process unfold inspired the worm as a metaphorical guide.