2023-01, Collective exhibition, digital and physical works
In this collection of landscape representations, I used real elevation data produced by various public institutes to create digital representations of the Pyrénées mountain range. I selected pieces moving from realism to abstraction while staying in the landscape figurative style, a way to acknowledge mountains as scientific and mystic places.
Theses works were selected and presented during a collective exhibition (Odysseys) in January 2023, at Cromwell Place, London.
2022-09, Collective exhibition, digital work
One work playing on the data-to-ink ratio idea from data visualisation, a quick way to say that you should avoid using too much ink if it does not represent information. In this case, a bit less than 2 percent of the initial topographical information is represented in this landscape. This work (Conflated Conflent) was selected for an online collective exhibition (Arithmetic Phenomena, verse.com).
- digital, 2338 x 3307 lossless bitmap, computed and rendered with R. Published as NFTs on verse.com (link).
2022-09, Dispyr studies, digital works
An attempt to emulate etching aesthetics with code, methodically removing more and more information.
- digital, lossless bitmap, computed and rendered with R. Published as NFTs on objkt.com (link).
2022-07, Ridge planting, digital and physical works
Collaboration with Anthony Siracusa. This short series is an attempt to gradually move from code-generated to hand-drawn works. In a first step we generated about a hundred simple landscapes, using geographical data from the Alps mountain range. We then selected a dozen outputs, traced them using a pen-plotter, made a final selection and finally drawn plant shapes between the ridges.
- digital, 4960 x 3507 lossless bitmap, computed and rendered with R. Published as NFTs on teia.art (link).
- ink on paper (210 x 297 mm, A4), hand and machine-drawn, landscape digitally rendered.
2022-07, Dispyr 8 Views, digital and physical works
Selected fragments of the Pyrénées mountain range, based on real-world data from a digital elevation model (15x10 km region). The overall aesthetic is obtained by adding noise and discarding data as a function of a distance matrix.
- digital, 4960 x 3507 lossless bitmap, computed and rendered with R. Published as NFTs on objkt.com (link).
- ink and paper, plotted with Axidraw V3/A3 on 300 g/m2 paper (298x420 mm, A3) with Rotring Isograph 0.3mm pen.
2022-01, Dispyr, digital and physical works
A series of 16 curated iterations representing random fragments of the Pyrénées mountain range, based on real-world data from a digital elevation model. The overall aesthetic is obtained by adding noise and discarding data as a function of various attributes (elevation, slope, elevation dispersion). About 90 % of the information present in the initial dataset is discarded, using four methods.
- digital, 2330 x 3307 lossless bitmap, computed and rendered with R. Published as NFTs on objkt.com (link).
- ink and paper, plotted with Axidraw V3/A3 on 300 g/m2 paper (148x210 mm, A5) with Rotring Isograph 0.3mm pen.
