Nurture

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Like the ‘Primordial Soup’ from which all life is thought to have evolved over three billion years ago, Nurture begins with a ‘primordial’ dataset: the collection of visual and raw informational components from which the lifeforms inside this digital ecosystem arise.

These basic components are combined, through means both intentional and arbitrary, to create new digital lifeforms that evolve and mutate, triggering a pseudo-evolutionary process that begins to populate the ecosystem with ‘life’.

Exploring the ways in which the forces and entities of nature can be translated into parameters that define a digital environment or phenomenon, “Nurture” (2024) as exhibited at the Beyond exhibition, configured large scale, fragmented LED panels and physical mechanical set design, into a sort of mini biome populated by evolving surreal imagery. More than a single piece of work, Nurture in this context is a digital/physical simulation of a primitive ecosystem.

“Nurture” (2024), as seen at the Fresh Paint exhibition in Tel Aviv, is presented in a more traditional, decontextualised format (when compared to the original installation exhibited at Beyond Tel Aviv.   By displaying the work on a cluster of separated LED screens, each displaying individual snippets of the original artwork, an immersive ecosystem is portioned and exhibited for detached viewing, to be consumed in a similar manner to educational dioramas of extinct (or extant) organisms and their habitat’s that are often displayed inside museums, intended as more of a learning resource than an immersive experience.   Placing the work in this context creates a simplified observer paradigm for the viewer, introducing a sense of history to the original artwork.