Hegemony Of Screensavers (Artifacts)
Javascript, WebGL
(Refresh Composition)
A randomized composition of digital artifacts. Scans of plaster, 3D printed objects and natural stone. iPhone 5s. Inefficient GLSL. Screensaver trails. Nonlinear dynamics with Den Tsucs and Wang-Sun attractors. Distilled hours, days and weeks.
The work Hegemony of Screensavers (Artifacts) is a generative real-time 3D artwork originally released on fx(hash). The title relates the mark-making of a traditional brush to the ubiquitous path-trailing effects of early screensavers. The generative 3D “screensaver” is an endless composition of digital brush trails driven by strange attractor equations, 3D scans of rocks, boulders, and discarded technology. Not content to merely save screens, the artwork lingers on the exploitation of natural resources and the pretended immateriality of the digital realm.
Strange attractors are useful models for processes found in nature and, like nature, are sensitive to initial conditions and often exhibit unstable solutions. I depict technological decay and disruption, as it is not clear if a stable solution exists for human technological societies and the Earth system. Humans can no longer entertain the narrative that their societies and technology are somehow separate from the natural world. They are all entangled and embedded within each other.
Stills images were minted from the generative project originally published on fx(hash) here: