“A Challenge to the Uniqueness of the Absolute Infinity in the Nature of God”, December 2009
Generative A/V installation

Made using max/msp by layering LCD objects. Birds are modulated polygons drawn using randomly generated coordinates. The landscape is composed of layered histograms, generated by randomly generated data.

At an impulse, the limit of my interest in the creation of a self-regulated digital-ecosystem as I approach the theories of Georg Cantor, given Pantheism. An ironic hell.

Through various means of filtering random data (representing nature) into self-governing sets, new pantheistic solipsisms are created. Does this suggest that we each have the powers of a god, or have I merely excised a manifest destiny?

Ian Brill, December 2009

“After Géricault”
(How Many Preparators Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?)
- Ian Brill, 2009 

Premiers Friday December 11th,
as part of “Behind Our Scene” at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh

A one-pass sample. The piece has no beginning or end, and is always different.

Addressing both the “The Raft of the Medusa” and the reutilized premise of “changing a light bulb” this generative work uses modern digital tools and illusions to present the processes and recordings of an artist as an ever-changing image, or painting.

While addressing both the brutality of the Romantic painting and the necessity of fellow laborers to laugh off the harshnesses of life, through the unexpected abstraction of a familiar reality this work invites the viewer to retreat farther into a state of nature to consider our own motives and chosen roles in society.