Screengrabs "Sonic Forces"
"Seventh in my series of abstracts based on in-game screengrabs. Each piece has the title of the game it’s based on. This one is from a 3D game featuring the blue hedgehog with the bonus feature of adding a custom avatar.
I'm interested in the visceral attraction of game technology. I spent many hours losing myself in games and these worlds and characters still fascinate.
The image starts as a screengrab. I ‘atomise’ it, filtering the image down to various coloured dots. I extrude the dots into a 3rd dimension using a light distribution mesh. Then layer multiple extrusions over each other. The original game shot is used as background and the ‘atoms’ in the foreground. Finally I run it all through an AI, giving a painterly warp to details."
Burner #128
"BURNER is a dynamic cryptoart series that changes every block in response to live Ethereum gas price data. A total of 256 interconnected artworks dependent on the state of the blockchain. As Ethereum network usage increases due to price volatility, NFT sales or other factors, a more forceful artwork develops.
Gas price data is made from the competing desires, intentions and beliefs of millions of entities. Transactions on Ethereum create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, cyclically revealing unforeseen states. BURNER pictures this continuous decentralised process. The artwork is never finished, there's always a new variant.
It’s common to fetishise technology and we can easily become hooked on the network systems we use. The Ethereum blockchain is influential on our lives and this artwork tries to reveal some of its underlying behaviour through abstraction.
The image files in BURNER begin as pictures of true physical gas. They’re extruded into a third dimension, rotated and processed until they’re unrecognisable. These new forms interact differently with one another in each digital artwork.
Every BURNER has a unique base image, unique seed and 60 million potential states. Rarer ‘dark’ and ‘bright' types can have over 1 billion states. Apart from the base image, the layers are shared communally between collectors, then mixed uniquely in each piece. Slower pieces have higher rarity.
BURNER isn’t controlled by the artist, but by the Ethereum Virtual Machine and its users."
6X #1/12
"3D line graphs can be found in popular market data charting software and on business news sites. This artwork takes public domain internet imagery and my own recycled artworks, extrudes them into a third dimension, stretches and animates them into multiple 3D timeline charts. The charts could also resemble waves, curtains or film reels. Or simply 6 connected studies in light, colour and motion."