The Art

Like much of life, my art can be described by nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations.

I sketch part of a pattern I want to explore: a whirl, a meander, a polygon … and then use data assimilation to guide my selection of the PDE I want to use.

Typically my art involves solving the PDE over several hundred thousand time steps and the results fill an image with 8192x8192 resolution. What you see is a manifold, although I wouldn’t claim they’re always true topological manifolds in the mathematical sense. That would require some more rigorous work and who needs that?.

But they are manifolds in the way Kant meant : all the particulars of something before they’re united into a common and (often clichéd) understanding.

Each of us finds a pattern in these particulars: you might see birds, someone else might see spaceships, others will see spaghetti.

The beauty of abstract art arises from this ambiguity. While the lack of realism can be repulsive to some, particularly - I hear - when it is generative, its appeal to others arises from the joy that we, as humans, have in creating meaning through our own observations and perspectives.

At the same time, while the images are for you to joyfully interpret as you wish, we treasure that they are not arbitrary squiggles but instead capture exact descriptions of how complex coupled systems behave over time. My art uses the same equations and the same techniques that we use to describe eddies in the ocean, the ever changing numbers of wolves and moose in the forest, the mechanisms of a child’s swingset, or the meanders of a lazy sunlit river.

The Path

Rather than a "roadmap," please imagine meandering footpaths through a lovely public garden. With places to stop along the way to sit on a bench and study the clouds and a garden bed of glass flowers, or a nearby ocean filled with ceramic fish and metal squid. With massive kinematic sculptures to watch or ride with your friends. A place to experience 21st century art and science. Our long-term plan is to develop just such a public garden, in the real world. Our immediate goal is to create a VR version of this garden for all of us, wherever we are, to enjoy and guide. By year 2, the management of this virtual space will be turned over to a DAO.

The Funds

ALGO received by the project is used for purchasing NFTs from other algo artists, minting new NFTs that will be available on algo marketplaces, and saving money for the creation of the gardens.

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The Art

The Path

The Funds

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