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This is a video installation created by John Flear exclusively for Bit Editions. The piece
This is a video installation created by John Flear exclusively for Bit Editions. The piece is 14 by 12 inches in size. It easily hangs on the wall, just like a painting.
The patterns created on the LED panel are made by digital fireflies that move around their environment to find the ideal temperature for their existence. If it's too hot they move away from the other fireflies. If it's too cold they hang out together. This abstraction reflects the way we humans also lead our lives. We move around pulled by emotional forces in various directions. Looking from a distance we can see an intricate dance of life. A crazy life.
John's work explores the emergence of complex collective patterns from simple individual behavior. His work is heavily influenced by Thomas Schelling, the 2005 Nobel prize laureate in economics. Small changes in individual behavior often cause big changes in resulting interactions. John uses computers to simulate living environments. He programs the individual behaviors of the artificial organisms and lets them create their own ecologies and patterns. The results are fascinating and sometimes unexpected
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"Akiko Sakaizumi creates a queasy, video game-inspired narrative, highlighted by a flying
"Akiko Sakaizumi creates a queasy, video game-inspired narrative, highlighted by a flying chicken body being shot at and impregnated by a phallic cannon, and giving birth to its own head," writes Ben Davis for Artnet Magazine
Akiko Sakaizumi is a Japanese-born new media artist living in Williamsburg, NY and Mito, Japan. Her projects have been shown at the Kanagawa Museum of Moder Art, Sculpture Center, White Box, Pierogi 2000, Diverseworks and The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Her recent digital pieces use the framework of classic arcade video games like space invaders in a new context of social and gender critique.
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