The Process Of History

4K/3D animation looped, 2016

The structure of this 9-minute animated loop consists of 3 cameras, each 3 minutes, edited using Fibonacci series beginning with a single frame and increasing algorithmically throughout.

This rendered animation uses the same environment I built for several historic on-line exhibition contexts. The first is "Room 13," created for Panther Modern, a project of the avatar-artist Laturbo Avedon in 2014, and also one of the first online virtual museums. The second “After the Party," a virtual-reality world for Oculus Rift, that premiered 2015 in DiModa, the Digital Museum of Digital Art.

The world was inspired by the work of Verner Panton (1926-1998), the pop furniture designer from Denmark, known for his optical interiors and pioneering work with injection molded plastics. His design strategy originally emerged from the Danish Modern, known for bent, biomorphic wood and muted tones. Panton broke with this esthetic, developing instead fantastical, vibrant interiors he described as psychedelic landscapes.

A synthetic interior in which monumental sculptures of flowers are surfaced with Panton-inspired patterns, this world is was my version of Panton’s kind of optimistic sixties Op Art. It is an architecture that grows and randomly decays, cycling endlessly. Defined by several of Panton's lighting fixtures used to cover walls and ceilings, I tried to create an esthetic of fakeness where technology has replaced nature, both sugary sweet and chemically toxic in equal measures.

The audio track is by Alain Thibault, composer and curator of the Elektra Festival, Montreal.