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AUDIO VISUAL PAINTINGS

Interactive, generative, audio visual, digital paintings and drawings created specifically for the internet. This is interactive art on the internet, incorporating generative sounds and coded imaging. Amorphoscapes, provide a seductive, multi-sensory non linear and interactive experience for the audience to immerse into. Now available as touch screen based works as well as a live performance event.

Ten years of Amorphoscapes. This project or series of works is finished and will not be added to here.

TOUCHSCREEN

These works are for sale and exhibition on touch screens and plasma screens, available for public foyers, galleries and interiors: More information on the touch screens. .

ABOUT STANZA

Stanza uses computers to develop expressive possibilities between himself and his audience. And, underlying his simple interfaces and seductive forms are sophisticated formal and technical structures, such as software agents, custom hardware and complex networking. His self-generating artworks contain the essential pleasure of digital playfulness, while also approaching deeper issues about people and information networks. This singular process of participation and inquiry can be scaled to large networks or to individual users, and it can also support live performances and large-scale installations.

Stanza brings extensive knowledge to artworks that explore visual abstraction, aesthetic experimentation and information networks. By actively engaging with social spaces, his screen-based works are both participatory and aesthetic. This blend of direct interaction with strong content grasps formal, experiential and contextual issues simultaneously. His influences are numerous from extensive travel and research, and he is aware of his contemporaries working in many fields, such as art, design, music, computers, architecture and robotics. His formal concerns show astute awareness of history and culture.

Stanza's approach to the technology where a simple interface provides easy access to complex, living data strikes a balance between materials and context. While technology fuels utopic ideas and endless hype, this artist assumes a pragmatic, but challenging position. Overall, Stanza’s work triggers an active perceptual field (visual, spatial, auditory and tactile) that can reframe the context of viewing art. Stylistically and conceptually unique, this work evokes a sense of abundant, malleable data that increasingly fills our reality. Essentially, this artist uses his tools, his process and his context to explore an active interior where he and viewers and machines all communicate together.

 

EXHIBITION

The amorphoscapes series have been exhbited internationally over the last ten years. They have featured at Siggraph, won first prizes at festivals such at New Forms Canada and SeNef Korea. The online web based version have been featured on the BBC and touch screen versions have been exhibited at The Jerwoord Space, Tate Britain and Venice Bienalle. They have also been shown at many conferences and festivals around the world. For full exhibition list see.