Using a computer programming language called Processing, my work abstracts
the data that surrounds humanity and contextualizes numerical-driven meaning in
aesthetic form.
With information and numbers abound, our existence both
depends on data and transcends their meaning. I explore the boundaries of
analytical and emotional reaction to data and art. Can ‘just another statistic’
become something that informs us in a visceral and elegant manner? Or
conversely, can an abstracted image hanging on the wall help to explain some of
today’s most pressing social challenges?
In this way my work reflects our development as a society and
its implications to the way we live.
Randomness is a central element to these works. While social
and technological advances allow us to exert increasing levels of control over
our life, much of life’s outcomes are still whim to the fortunes of chance. For
this reason, many elements of the data being portrayed – the tilt of a line,
the glow of an orb, the hue of a shadow – are left to the whims of electrons
inside a computer processor.
And yet these aesthetic, abstracted meanings – e.g. the data,
computer code, and artistic discretion that produced these works — remind us
that we can still exert much influence over our human experience.