AGA

    Wesley Talbot

    AGA is a generative system that uses a robotic arm to create paintings . It utilizes various methods; including Markov Chains, openCV, and chance to create its compositions. While AGA might be seen as an extension of the artists' hand, it actually stands between tool and agency. With the influx of hobby robotics, and the accessibility to faster computation the future of art will surely be accompanied by helping hands we've built. The legacy artists will leave behind, may in fact be systems of creation rather than the creations themselves; systems that will produce art the artist will never see. This project investigates co-production, serendipity, and the translation of form from one to another.


    Wesley Talbot

    I am interested in our relationship with digital imagery: how we disseminate information, co-opt meaning and respond to its omnipresence. Our familiarity with the digital image and the concept of its infinite malleability are central to my work. By manipulating, re-contextualizing, and sharing we engage the image directly and offer alternate meanings.

    My studio practice has led me to experiment with multiple mediums and techniques and having now studied Computational Arts I am better equipped to express these ideas. I am currently investigating robotics and AI art to continue my work in the digital space adding questions of agency.

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    Thing power   physical computing  

    Wesley Talbot

    I am interested in our relationship with digital imagery: how we disseminate information, co-opt meaning and respond to its omnipresence. Our familiarity with the digital image and the concept of its infinite malleability are central to my work. By manipulating, re-contextualizing, and sharing we engage the image directly and offer alternate meanings.

    My studio practice has led me to experiment with multiple mediums and techniques and having now studied Computational Arts I am better equipped to express these ideas. I am currently investigating robotics and AI art to continue my work in the digital space adding questions of agency.