These are some preparatory studies for a show at Steel House this coming winter. I think they are more sophisticated than most of my earlier work. In particular, they offer one solution to a problem of diversity of behavior in algorithmic art: If a work is generated by a single organic algorithm, how can it look like something other than an undifferentiated mass?
Hello, everybody. After a hiatus of over two years, I’m again making some visual art that I think might be interesting enough to share with the world. Click here to view 10 random high-resolution pieces out of a batch of 698 that I made recently.
Below are some scenes from Fugitive Spectator: Farm Edition, an interactive app-driven performance art experience created by myself, Ariel Hall, Annie Bailey, Denise DeSpirito, Jacob Fricke, Becca Glaser, Tom Luther, and Greg Pinto on July 20, 2019. Photography by Erin Tokarz.
Remember that you will die! Memento Mori is a set of 12,978 images of a skull. On display now at Steel House Gallery. Click here to view 100 random high-resolution skulls.
From the gallery’s show description: ‘Memento Mori, Latin for “remember that you will die,” is a set of 12,978 images of a skull. These images are shown continuously on five monitors in the gallery space, with a selection shown in print on the wall. Each of these images is an algorithmic and geometric transfiguration of the same single black-and-white source photograph. Each image is unique, disposable, and replaceable. No person (including the artist) has seen them all. The work will be on view through February 15.’
During a recent visit to Civita di Bangoregio, I took a series of (amateur) smartphone photos of this ancient, eroded town and its environs. Enchanted by the local shapes and colors, I wrote software to algorithmically decompose these photos into lines and planes. This is the first result.
