Скачать или смотреть john gerrard in conversation with Casey REAS about crystalline work

crystalline work is a solo exhibition by john gerrard and hosted on Feral File.
crystalline work (arctic) is a software artwork in which a virtual robot is sited upon a barren platform at the Arctic North Pole. Using an ice-generation algorithm, the robot performs to create real time crystal patterns, titled “archetypes,” producing 24 unique archetypes per solar day, 168 per week, and 8,760 over an entire solar year. Archetypes include masks, solar crosses, mandalas, stars, trees, snowflakes, and mycelium. The robot also changes color second by second, shifting across the visible light spectrum in real time, from solstice to solstice. The length of time required for a performance’s completion can vary from 20 minutes to over 1 hour. Once an archetype is completed, the robot’s performance is digitally dropped into the Feral File gallery as a unique, dynamic, tokenized 3D Web Graphic Library (WebGL) art piece documenting that solar moment and made available to collect.

Casey REAS is the co-founder and artist-in-residence of Feral File. He is an artist, whose works have been collected by institutions such as the Pompidou, SFMOMA, The Whitney, and BuffaloAKG. He is an educator, a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. He is a coder, and the co-founder of the processing language with Ben Fry in 2001. Learn more about Casey REAS at https://reas.com

john gerrard is an esteemed and pioneering artist, widely regarded as a key figure in the development of simulation within contemporary art. Deceptively looking like film or video, his works are virtual worlds made using real-time computer graphics. Gerrard's work is in the collection of venerable global institutions such as the Tate; MoMA; SFMOMA; LACMA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and M+, Hong Kong. Notably for this audience today, his work Western Flag (2017) was the first tokenized artwork (NFT) to enter LACMA’s permanent collection. He is represented by Pace Gallery globally. Learn more about john gerrard at https://www.johngerrard.net

john and Casey’s friendship and artistic collaborations go back to the early 2000s when john was an artist in residence at Ars Electronica FutureLab in Linz and Casey was at the MIT Media Lab. John was a part of the autumn 2019 A2P, curated by Casey, and John subsequently had a work titled "Smoke Hands (Dark)" in Feral File's October 2022 exhibition "Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process" curated by Jesse Damiani. And that work has been accessioned into the permanent collection of the Pompidou. Today, john and Casey will discuss john’s current solo exhibition on Feral File, called "crystalline work." Visit the exhibition at https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/cry...

Moderated by Whitney Hart