Expertise
Animation; Fine Art; Artificial Intelligence
Overview
Meditations on form, texture & memory; an anti-AI art project bleeding into a purpose-built AI application.
This (semi) on-going series of short-loop animations grounded in the aforementioned question: what if? What happens when one thought leads to another, and that second thought to a third. And like Ada Twist being led to four questions more, one falls down an experimental rabbit hole of remixed exports being reconfigured in yet still different ways.
Warning: Please note that these animations contain flashing lights and quickly moving images.
These animations are an extension of my explorations into memory with Forms&Shapes, asking the question of “what really is nostalgia?” These animations were not deliberately created to be “retro;” the surface-level appearance of pixels is merely a result of Vectoraster, the tool used to create these animations.
The actual press on our memory from what the motions, the colors, and the forms evoke. The reality is our memories are becoming fuzzier the deeper into the past they move. The exact details lost; colors smudge together; people become our ideas of who we think they are. You’re left with emotions attached to light falling a certain way, a breeze catching you off guard in a moment.
Anti-AI Meets AI
These explorations were purposely created without AI—a deliberate decision crucial to all my art. However, there was a recognition that I was finding my methods for posting & sharing these animations was limited and frankly unhelpful.
Having spent the last 15 years searching for a light-weight, minimally designed tool to display / share my work, the viewer application too became an experiment. Quick sketches in Figma were pulled into Claude, and from there the process of refinement began—a refinement leveraging years of collaboration with design, product & engineering. The result was a PHP framework with the ability to display a large volume of artwork; easily share individual pieces; and without a CMS, easily manage the effort required to add new content (including server side bulk actions).
While this specific viewer is utilitarian in its approach, it has continued to evolve, finding a same-same-but-different life as the foundation for the The Future Sucks.