Sean Clark - Connected Digital Artworks / 2016
This collection of new work by Sean Clark was supported by Arts Council England. It resulted in an exhibition in December 2016 entitled "A Cybernetic Ecology". The exhibition included:
- Self-organising digital images
- Digital art objects
- Projected images and lights
- Environment sensors
Progress was posted on Sean Clark's blog.
Supported By
Artist Statement
- I use systems theory to help inspire my work (in particular the theory of self-producing autopoietic systems by Maturana and Varela)
- I see my artworks as patterns that are maintained by a process in response to inputs and outputs
- My artworks can be connected through sensors or over the internet, or both
- I call collections of interacting artworks Cybernetic Ecologies
Inspired by
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan
I'd like to think (and the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think (right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think (it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
