Many of the generative strategies that have been used in traditional VFX are now easily applied to electronic components. This integration provides for a much larger toolset where boundaries between physical and virtual becomes blurred, and the canvas becomes immersive rather than flat.

Beach wood, stepper motors, arduino, grout.

Filmmaker Natasha Maidoff approached me needing a way to display synced video for a multi screen piece at the Google Art Walk. Having multiple view ports embedded into a single piece creates tension between the individual screens and adds a dynamic layer on top of what happens within the boundaries of each. I built an aluminum frame to hold the LCD screens, power supplies and networked raspberry pi computers playing back the video in sync. The whole was then mounted to the wooden frame. more…

Along with providing necessary data for VFX production, panoramas provide visual great datasets to explore creative uses of composition, sharpness, perspective and mood.

The label of “digital art” is often applied to work that use computers to simulate the look of traditional physical media even when the physical medium on which this visual grammar was evolved is no longer there. Ultimately, algorithms are to data what the paintbrush is to the canvas, and in both cases it is the job of the artist to apply the former to the latter in a way that reveals a universal truth. These images were generated using the Processing toolkit.