The Hare Print

I have been creating mixed media artworks and software since the early 1980's. My background is one that embraces music, art, philosophy and science in equal measures, informing my process. In 1989, I invented pixound, a program that translates color into music"”that was a fun discovery. I also created Hyperchord where the user could draw riffs and listen to them in any scale and key, at any speed. Over the last twenty years I've been (slowly) developing custom "mathematical paint brushes" which allow me to explore an imaginative frontier in a manner I believe was never before possible. The works on this site are a small fraction of what I've created. My art is mostly conceptual and not so much about creating beautiful things as it is about beautiful ideas for things. My main medium is not pigment suspended in oil, but artful algorithms, liberally redirected by chance. I create by exploring a realm that lies beyond my imagination and my physical skills, using mathematics and computers as tools. When these abstract ideas take on a final physical form it can't be dull and mechanical. The object needs to have a surface and feel that does justice to the visual discovery I've made. I continue to experiment in this area using all sorts of amazing new materials. My art can take on any form from an ever changing video installation to a detailed painting the size of a building to a hundred miniscule, unique portraits of a dog on wood. There is a long history of collaboration between artists and scientists, always pushing the boundaries. Artists aren't about to let some new material or medium get used by everybody else and not use it themselves. They are often scientists themselves"”hypothesizing, experimenting and discovering new methods of construction and expression. You see this from Da Vinci's experiments with pigments to Alber's color studies or David Salle's use of projectors for tracing images. Warhol fancied himself as a machine. Now the machines are much fancier and I'm happy to use them. I have exhibited in New York, New Jersey, New Mexico and in 1992, I collaborated with my brother Michael (a New York artist), where we had the final installation in the full chronology of the human face called "A Visage Découvert", near Versailles, France at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.