Truly honoured to have collaborated with the Artists 9 Lazy 9 on this AI video. They were there at the very beginning of Ninja Tune, crafting that iconic laid-back jazz-hip hop sound that influenced so many of us. To work with them now feels full circle !
The need to go back to the roots. I had several iterations of Rough Surface having a custom built PC simulating water, and I feel it’s time for a newer version running a model
ROUGH SURFACE, 2019
Software, custom built computer, and TV screen installation exploring digital materiality and surface textures. Installed at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.
If you change your perspective, you are changing the Observer. Since the Observer is what "renders" reality, you are—quite literally—changing the reality you inhabit. You aren't "trapped" because the program is interactive. You are both the Player and a tiny part of the Programmer.
Displaying Digitally Native Artworks (at Home) in 2001
Illya Szilak in 2001: "You know, it's not like painting's going to go away - but, certainly it is a new media and it opens up opportunities to explore different tradition media like painting and film and video."