ZEITWARP | ZWRP
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Where digital goes to die...
LET'S GET DIGITAL
IMMUTABILTY DISCO
I have been producing 'disposable' digital still-image JPG art since the pre-meme Web 1.0 of the1990's. At some point in late 2020 I started working on more sophisticated audiovisual soundscapes to reflect the post-conceptual themes of my embryonic full-time art career.
In early 2021 I chose to preserve and categorise this digital work on the embryonic NEAR Protocol blockchain - due to its proof of stake carbon neutral infrastructure.
With the decline and eventual fall of the NEAR cultural ecosystem, this period of work is now preserved - for provenance purposes mainly - on IPFS using AR Weave/AR Drive.
This unlinked SEO-dark gallery is a (heavily compressed) portfolio of some of that work - with a little bit of history and process info.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE?
ORGANIC ONLY
I describe my digital output as 'organic'. The primary reason for this is to distinguish it from generative/derivative AI.
The creative use of AI is a complex, contentious and nuanced issue. However, what essentially matters for me is the intention behind the creative act.
Personally - and except for the express purposes of juxtaposition - I choose to source and or create everything for myself from within the physical world when trying to communicate an intentional statement in a sensory aesthetic form.
So everything you see in my work is an IRL object or pattern that has then been digitally manipulated by my own act/agency.
MUSIC GRAFFITI >> REMIXED
FEEDBACK LOOPS
"Destroy a canvas and you make shapes" - Gustav Metzger
The artistic premise behind the FEEDBACK LOOPS project is to start with a single visual symbol of music/sound - the MUSIC GRAFFITI paintings - and then to explore a sequence of recursive phase space transformations between the sensory spaces of Sound & Vision, Music & Art and physical/digital forms.
FEEDBACK LOOPS artworks include FRACTAL and/or FRACTURED GROOVE digital art, PHREAK MUSIC soundscapes, audiovisual collages, augmented reality installations, etc
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE?
ORGANIC DIGITAL ART
“…that’s the kind of Avant Garde that gets my heart up…”
CLARIAN - Producer, DJ, Anjunadeep Artist, Founder of Tamago Streaming.
I describe my digital output as 'organic'. The primary reason for this is to distinguish it from generative/derivative AI.
The creative use of AI is a complex, contentious and nuanced issue. However, what essentially matters for me is the intention behind the creative act.
Personally - and except for the express purposes of juxtaposition - I choose to source and or create everything for myself from within the physical world when trying to communicate an intentional statement in a sensory aesthetic form.
So everything you see in my work is an IRL object or pattern that has then been digitally manipulated by my own act/agency.
INSTALLATION | PHREAK MUSIC | DIGITAL ART | AUGMENTED REALITY
FREE JAZZ
"Is it Ella...or is it Memorex"
'FREE JAZZ?' is a multi-form / multisensory exploration of the new landscape for creators, curators and consumers of culture in the machine age.
It is part of the DI$PLACEMENT DISCO series of work addressing the intersection of Culture, Technology and Humanity.
FREE JAZZ was first exhibited at REDACTED in Bangkok, November 2024 - both as a big screen digital artwork and immersive metal print.
MUSIC GRAFFITI >> REMIXED
FEEDBACK LOOPS
"Destroy a canvas and you make shapes" - Gustav Metzger
"Generative AI will continue to fundamentally change the landscape for creatives, curators and consumers of all types of culture - eradicating access barriers in terms of time and increasing the supply of creative work by an almost infinite amount - to the extent that there will be free self-produced music, free art, free poetry, free graphic design…
...and of course 'free jazz'."
Dan Quill / Zeitwarp - Lisbon, 2022
The artistic premise behind the FEEDBACK LOOPS project is to start with a single visual symbol of music/sound - the MUSIC GRAFFITI paintings - and then to explore a sequence of recursive phase space transformations between the sensory spaces of Sound & Vision, Music & Art and physical/digital forms.
FEEDBACK LOOPS artworks include FRACTAL and/or FRACTURED GROOVE digital art, PHREAK MUSIC soundscapes, audiovisual collages, augmented reality installations, etc
The GLITCH BREAKS variations are a series of remixes of the original painting images into both visual MP4 video artworks and physical Art prints.
GROOVE RUNNER
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC NOISE
"That's great...but I guess the question then is...Do Androids Dream of Electric Noise?"
Dan Quill / Zeitwarp - 'Future Music' Interview - Lisbon, Nov 2023
'DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC NOISE' is a series of recursive artworks including physical/digital installation, digital/video collage, PHREAK MUSIC 'Blip-Beats' and immersive art prints.
Inspired initially by a throwaway reply in an interview discussing the proliferation of both AI music and bot listeners on the major streaming platforms, the title of the series is a reference to Philip K Dick's 1968 sci-fi novel that became the basis of the 1982 film Bladerunner.
It was the first work in DI$PLACEMENT DISCO - a new series of work examining the intersection of 'Culture, Technology and Humanity' that has since been exhibited on three continents.
GROOVE RUNNER
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC NOISE
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC NOISE is a series of recursive artworks including physical/digital installation, digital/video collage, PHREAK MUSIC 'Blip-Beats' and immersive art prints.
Inspired initially by a throwaway reply in an interview discussing the proliferation of both AI music and bot listeners on the major streaming platforms, the title of the series is a reference to Philip K Dick's 1968 sci-fi novel that became the basis of the 1982 film Bladerunner.
It was the first work in DI$PLACEMENT DISCO - a new series of work examining the intersection of 'Culture, Technology and Humanity' that has since been exhibited on three continents.
“This is the logical endgame of streamonomics: bots making music strictly and perhaps solely to be listened to by other bots.
The only human interaction would be your monthly subscription fee.”
Terry Matthew - 5 Mag, Aug 2023
INSTALLATION | PHREAK MUSIC | DIGITAL ART | AUGMENTED REALITY
FREE JAZZ
"Is it Ella...or is it Memorex"
'FREE JAZZ?' is a multi-form / multisensory exploration of the new landscape for creators, curators and consumers of culture in the machine age.
It is part of the DI$PLACEMENT DISCO series of work addressing the intersection of Culture, Technology and Humanity.
FREE JAZZ was first exhibited at REDACTED in Bangkok, November 2024 - both as a big screen digital artwork and immersive metal print.
"Generative AI will continue to fundamentally change the landscape for creatives, curators and consumers of all types of culture - eradicating access barriers in terms of time and increasing the supply of creative work by an almost infinite amount - to the extent that there will be free self-produced music, free art, free poetry, free graphic design…
...and of course 'free jazz'."
Dan Quill / Zeitwarp - Lisbon, 2022
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