Spectron

Simon De Mai

400 unique artworks

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This edition of video artworks is the result of my research in video art from the 60s and 70s, especially early analog video synthesizers. These were heavy hardware machines capable of generating shapes and patterns from the ground up, with no external visual input. How could these machines generate such complexity by just manipulating electronic voltage? I decided to investigate this process. Although with modern technologies, Spectron shares the procedural logic with its analog ancestors.

RELEASE DATE

13 Feb 2021

LIBRARY

js@na

RELEASE DETAILS

400 works released on 13 Feb 2021

PROJECT ID

0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270-17

CONTRACT

Etherscan

LICENSE

CC BY-NC 4.0

17000059

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Simon De Mai

Simon De Mai is an interdisciplinary artist and art director. His artistic research combines a design methodology with a hands-on experimental approach, leading to processes and visual results focused on intuition, human error and technology imperfections. His practice often results in the development of custom tools or the deliberate misuse of existing ones....

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