Lee Barry Composition Diary

 Results (Google Search Art) (2012)   As neural networks become smarter, so will image search results. When I began the project in 2012, image search results weren't that smart: images that appeared in Results were associated with the subject matter only to the degree that they were in the source web page. Since that point, search has become more sophisticated, whereby a keyword wouldn't necessarily need to be in the text in order for it to appear in the Results. For example, it could have a notion of what constitutes "beauty".  Almost 10 years later, artists are using AI to generate things like "Averaged Faces" and grouping them in grids. *** System latency causes color placeholder images to appear in Google search results, extracted from common pixel information in the images. It is interesting from a conceptual standpoint, as the search terms produce a color range as a result: Algorithms abide by Universals as well.

One Step Ahead of the Moon (1997) Virtually keyless.  

PURCHASE AT AMAZON This book is a literal continuation of other extant material:  Continua (Ordering as a Cognitive Pattern), Dynaxiom, Exforma , as well as the Composition Strategies , designed to be a flip-book for serendipity, not for linear reading, although I have included an appendix at the back of the book (as a continuation), which includes selected essays from Exforma . I have also included a list of human universals at recto upper-left and verso lower-right of each page spread  (as delineated in the book Human Universals by Donald Brown), also for the purpose of fortuitous discovery. The book will also continue on in future editions, each with a different spine color following “ROYGBIV”, the sequence of the light spectrum colors from low to high: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with perhaps black and white to “bookend” the set. As of this first edition, it is undetermined what format the future editions might include. The number...

Ship of Theseus 24x36 inches, oil on canvas Ship of Theseus is an ancient Greek myth that a replica or copy of an object may or may not contain the essences of the original. I was attempting to portray the idea of something broken in pieces, but still faintly visible. (Influences: Chuck Close, Paul Klee, Gerard Richter, Francis Bacon.) Even if you built out the past to look exactly like the present, would the future repeat it exactly? .1 BTC #2009 #grids #65