Fleeting Glimpses 2

Fleeting Glimpses 2 is a generative, real-time artwork designed to challenge traditional boundaries between artist, curator, and viewer.

The real-time software produces an ever-changing, endless stream of abstract compositions based on happenstance.

Driven by mathematical chance, 3D geometries and coloured lights fly randomly throughout the scene, forever creating (and destroying) an abstract composition that is never fully at rest, and never repeats.

As the artist and coder, I develop the art, test, and iterate for several hours or days to determine which aspects are controlled or randomized and to what degrees. Together, these settings shape the overall personality of the work.

But during exhibition, control of the on-screen results are ultimately relinquished to the software, making the algorithm (and/or random luck) an equal co-creator. The outcomes are not the equivalent of blindly throwing paint, but there is a very strong element of that too.

And while paintings generally don't change as you look at them, your perception of Fleeting Glimpses will depend on the precise moment(s) that you view it — adding an unpredictable factor to the process.

Accompanying the ephemeral digital artwork are screenshots of the work printed on durable metal. In contrast to the fleeting nature of the digital work, each of these prints preserves a single moment in time that will never be seen again.

Exhibition History:

• 2018, Cubed Luminous, Penscola, Florida
• 2017, Fleeting Glimpses (Solo Exhibition), Likely General, Toronto