Streaming Museum and the Chelsea Art Museum are pleased to announce the July 6 opening of The Poetics of Code, Part 2, an exhibit showcasing the video & digital-media art projects of 'The Johnny Cash Project 2010' and 'Dreams in High Fidelity.'
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Streaming Museum and the Chelsea Art Museum are pleased to announce the July 6 opening of The Poetics of Code, Part 2, an exhibit showcasing the video & digital-media art projects of ‘The Johnny Cash Project 2010’ and ‘Dreams in High Fidelity.’
The Johnny Cash Project 2010 by Aaron Koblin, is a global collective art project where participants are invited to create a drawing that is woven into a collective video tribute to Johnny Cash, set to his song Ain’t No Grave. The project was inspired by the song’s central lyric, “ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down,” and represents Cash’s continued existence, even after his death, through his music and his fans. A collaboration with director Chris Milk, the work continues to grow and evolve as more people participate.
Excerpts from Dreams in High Fidelity and other long, high resolution pieces by Scott Draves were formatted for this exhibition. The work is made possible through a distributed processing network made up of tens of thousands of computers that he has harnessed over the past decade. Draves’ collectible works explore concepts like genetic variation and the origins of life, displaying organic-looking abstract animations that are mathematically generated, algorithmically relatedand visually resemblant. The way the images are created defies conventional digital drawing and photography. Layers of colored pixels find and re-find their positions as the solution to an equation that keeps incrementally changing.
