CONTEMPORARY ART meets GEOMETRIC METER
meets DIGITAL DESIGN

Detail from forthcoming animation

What excites me about this square animation theme is the simplicity of the constituent elements. The exploding and imploding grids are based on simple arithmetic progression and all the rest of the effects are created by contrasting inverted radial fills. From a few simple ingredients there many possible permutations, of which this animation represents only a fraction.

needs more ordering and purpose, but i’m quite excited by this simple animation of 100 squares. its not intended to be a complete work in itself, but an ingredient is something all together more ambitious.

I’ve long been interested in finding visual parallels to the structures in music. I’m very excited about my recent work with animation. I’ve only dabbled in animation until recently, but now I’m looking at it from a potentially more fruitful angle – exploring ideas that I think are probably also at the root of invention in music. I’d now like to take these experiments to the next level and incorporate synchronized audio cues within the work. It would be fascinating to work with a audio artist on this who shares my interest in fundamental metered structure and very abstract digital aesthetics. Sounds a bit geeky I know, but this is only one side to the work. It’s the mechanics if you like, the stuff that make it work. Music composers have been talking about formal compositional devices for centuries and there has evolved terminology to deal with the fabric of music. If geometrically metered and composed visual art ever becomes more common then also would the terminology needed to describe the universal processes.

See my new digital animation cinema page. Time Symmetry Digital Animation Project I will be posting more work in here soon