Monday, April 23, 2012

4. Software Art: boredomresearch (TM)

 Lost calls of cloud mountain whirligigs, screenshot daytime, Custom Software, Computer, TFT Screen, 2009

boredomresearch is a project/collaboration of artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith from Southampton UK. Their artworks are software/computer-based and explore ideas about biological forms in nature, and how they change and evolve over time. All their work is computer-generated, and lives both online as well as through the DAM gallery in Berlin/Cologne. Their works range from computer-generated print work (c-prints) to evolving software run on custom-made screens, as well as works that only live online and can be interacted with, such as a wishing tree, or the aspiration storm. In the above image, "whirligigs" transform and generate biologically as time passes over a craggy landscape, changing lights and shapes, as well as colors.