Data Aesthetics
Each of the artists below analyze the structure of data in the creation of their artworks. This algorithmic approach to art may be used to analyze existing aesthetics, appreciate the aesthetics in pure data, or use a program to create art driven by an aesthetic defined in algorithm.
Jason Salavon (“http://salavon.com/“)
Jason Salavon’s artworks treat the image as data as a means of exposing the underlying aesthetic of a genre. In his “amalgamations” series (“http://salavon.com/work.php?sort=ama“) this involves averaging the pixel values of a sequence of related images to create a blurred impression of the sequence as a whole that reveals the underlying similarities within the sequence. Other works such as “The Top Grossing Film of All Time” (“http://salavon.com/TGFAT/Titanic.shtml“) averages reduces the frames of a movie to a single color averaged pixel to show the shift of the film’s color from beginning to end in a single image.
DNA 11 (“http://www.dna11.com/“)
DNA 11 is a site that frames your personal biometric data as art. They offer services that capture images of your personal DNA sequence that are framed and sold as artworks.
Scott Draves (“http://draves.org/“)
“Dreams In High Fidelity”
Scott Draves’s “Dreams in High Fidelity” is a progression of fractals through time derived by his software “Electric Sheep”. This artwork projects the artist’s design aesthetic through software to create an infinite progression of images in line with his original aesthetic design choices. It is a means of framing the aesthetic choice as data, actualized into artwork through software.