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THE WORLD’S LARGEST GIF 🚫 Marius Watz Interviews Jason Salavon on Generative Art vs. Data-Driven Art
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1️⃣ Jason Salavon is an artist of contradictions with the undertones of a dark trickster. His work reveals a keen mind for computational systems, but is equally rooted in art history and evolving concepts of image production.
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2️⃣ a direct line from painting and photography to generative art, and finally, generative AI image generators. His back catalog ranges from sublime abstract visuals to conceptual gambits that prove more poignant upon closer inspection.
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3️⃣ I first got to know Salavon’s work in the early 2000s, at a time when finding other digital artists was not a trivial task. I saw that he clearly shared some of the same interests as the proto-generative scene I was embedded in at the time (soon to be centered around Processing), ...
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4️⃣ ... while also recognizing that his practice was referring more to contemporary art discourse than the somewhat insular Ars Electronica/MIT Media Lab futurism that I spoke natively.
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5️⃣ Initially, I was attracted to the formalist delights of Shoes, Domestic Production, 1960-1998 (2001), and later American Varietal (US Population, by County, 1790-2000) (2009) — visually stunning pieces that are technically visualizations of the most mundane of data sources.
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