This is a video installation and one of several ongoing experiments drawing abstract patterns with light. The work of animation pioneer John Whitney has been a major influence and I was able to attend the Brainwaves experimental music festival hosted by his son in 2006.
Different techniques have been used to generate images, and the ones pictured here were drawn manually while the computer created many reflections of each point. I prefer this technique to generating images completely with a computer, as they become sterile and rigid. The images here contain some of the whimsicality of brush strokes.
The videos represent various transcendental states of consciousness, and insight into the way the universe is constructed. It may suggest a move towards a post-scientific world based less on experimentation and discovery and more on creativity. Humanity may reach a point where a theory of everything explains all physical and natural phenomena, and the fundamental questions this raises about free will and consciousness as it relates to the universe.
Recently we have begun to make all human knowledge universally accessible. Machines that can learn and make decisions more accurately than humans are already beginning to take a foothold. Advances in biology and chemistry are based more on creativity and design. I believe these advances will not interfere with human rights, but enrich the world. It could only bring into focus the actual meaning of religions and their place in history, and what is and isn’t relevant.
