VIRTUALSCULPTURE

DATA SCULPTURE a definition

Datasculpture are computational works that deal with the commodification of information and dynamics of data itself, in this instance they are real time samples of Data streams harvested and mined

from the Dow Jones index; these discrete "grains" of data aggregate and self organise, eventually developing into vectoral forms that can have concrete sculptural outcomes

thereby showing the flux and dynamics of data and societal transformations in real time

materials are often listed as “code / cpu ” referencing the computation that parses the symbols into forms

The works are output in multiple formats as cnc or rapid prototype or purely in virtual flux the dimensions are often “variable”

Central to my practice is engagement with the consequences of Autopoiesis; I build generative coding systems or sample grains of data from real world sources that can evolve in real-time as tangible sculptural form or remain in their virtual “flux” state:

SPACESAMPLING :Real world sampling evidences Real time computational Sculptural outcomes:

dimensional and discrete sampling using time of flight 3d scans that I synthesize with Noise and DSP / Mined data or structural sources

AUTOTECTURE : Self Organising systems

here I am concerned with forms and systems that “self-generate, evidence and evolve under their own complexity” using a process I call Autotecture. Preferring to generate work from coding data mining and algorithm my work makes a departure from the traditional retinal/hand / 3d modelling.conjunction. I am therefore working with the Consequences of direct engagement with complexity in a generative system that affords the emergence in real time of “Vectoral Automata” as sculptural form

At any stage of their divergent development one may propagate or cull works as “Emergent Proofs” of autonomy, .

On a smaller scale woven into this process are the underlying protocols of data transfiguration in discrete abstraction.{Chrono-abstraction} Therefore, conceptually I posit that a work of art can be truly autonomous ,being machine agency constructed and continuously self organizing, whilst retaining the iconic presence of the plastic form.

"NOISY & UNFILTERED SERIES U N M O D E L L E D

* REAL TIME COMPUTATIONAL GENERATION *

" DOW DESCENDING $INDU " 99

▲ Autotecture SERIES

▼ DatasSonification©

2002 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans gallery screenshot of ▼ real time flux ▼ Stereohedral PLOT / SYNTHESIS of ANGOLA OIL FIELD + MRI of BEATING DOGS HEART

3D stereohedral Oil + Gas Futures Domain

VIRTUAL SCULPTURE

TIMe SAMPLE plot / DELTA SERIES / BETA ANGOLA DELTA / stl ht:4.6ft width:2 ft brdth:2ft ▲

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Thanks To : Hewlett Packard, USA/Europe, Honeywell, AT&T, MathEngine , Sensable , Stratasys , Delcam, World Tool Kit, Ascension Corp, Vpl, British Arts Council.

Selected Press with photo reproductions: Leonardo magazine, Sculpture magazine, New York Arts magazine, The Boston Globe, Arts Review, Contemporary Art & the Mathematical Instinct ,Research Review ,LondonIndependent ,Leonardo Electronic Almanac

article on spacesampling http://citypages.com/databank/21/1032/article8967.asp

Recent SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003-2006
International Rapid Prototyping Sculpture Exhibition
Southwestern University, Austin, TX, traveling to New York Institute of
Technology, New York, NY, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, University of
Houston at Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX, Kemper Room Gallery, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA, DAPP Gallery, College of Design,
Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH,
Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San
Bernardino, CA.

SOLO SHOW DATASCULPTURE 2000 CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS /pt of Siggraph /

Digital Art, Gallery DAK'ART,Keur Thiossane Villa pour les Arts Multimedia, Senegal,Africa.
International Symposium of Interactive Media Design4, Digital Art Exhibition, Yeditepe University Istanbul Turkey

Unitec Institute of Technology Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Intersculpt 2003 ,FNAC Digitale, Paris, France
TeleSculpture 2003 Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA and Arizona State