emptyname

"The notation is more important than the sound.

The stencil saves a shape, it doesn't save the moment.

This work builds a small, dirty test machine where repeatable structures become variable bodies and where absence acts.

An essay on why machines making better art would expose artistic quality as distinct from market value and from what making does within a human life.

An essay on the ambiguity of the word 'art' - from the older pantheon of the arts to the modern mono-art and the conceptual turn.

A generative art project on fxhash (with Doppelganger): algorithmically grown trees whose binary roots sprawl into soil - eight outputs, each a node in an ever-expanding forest.

A nine-point manifesto: generative NFT art is how digital art attains existence - code as notation, minting as ego-removal, copyright abandoned.

An audio collage set against John Cage's composition, with Marcel Duchamp on devaluing art as object - an essay on art's swing between the aesthetic and conceptual regimes.

A painting made to be read as a graphical musical score by two performers - its visual elements and colours interpreted and translated into sound.

A research project questioning the roles of composer and performer: graphical river scores (Danube, Nile, Ganges, Los Angeles) realised as recorded compositions.

A video work on isolation, stillness and motion - the spatial confusion and loss of bodily presence when life happens at zero miles per hour.

A series of paintings made with fragments of broken umbrellas and iron filings that rust into the paint over time - the oxidation itself completing the work.