Transmission: Salmon Run, 2009
Flash animation and custom max/msp A/V construction, melded through an automated Jitter effect sequence

The work is formed by two video feeds. On the left are 3 compound blobs morphing between themselves, struggling for identity. On the right is an “oscilloscope” read representing parametric changes to the performed audio.

Through tempered feedback these Salmon make their seasonal return trip to their place of birth visible to the viewer.

As an artist and as a man I often question my inherent compulsion to both create and procreate. For these fish, the return journey is carnal even as it utilizes an abstraction of the former trip as an experiential manner of intelligence. The thirst for youth is ultimately embedded with a trojan machination of nature. One which reiterates our gathered wit and project within our spawn.

“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