Hegemony of Screensavers (Artifacts) is a real-time, generative 3D artwork bridging the traditional mark-making of a brush with the ubiquitous trail effects of early screensavers. The endless digital brushstrokes are driven by strange attractor equations, colliding with 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 contested immateriality of digital media.
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.
Still images selected from the generative project originally published on fx(hash) here: