SanArt

Time spent alone is a series of projects conceptually linked through their being conceived in solitude and intended for display in the isolated social space of the internet. They are daydreams, worries and solitary trips. As a website, the state of Time Spent Alone is never fixed. It grows as viewers contribute to the Destinations section, and as I find new ideas to add to it.

I made a machine inspired of the texts by Oyvind Fahlstrom. He wrote about the future of art and how we could use technology to create art. The art piece is about how we could reproduce paintings with help of technology.
The machine creates pictures and you pay a small amount and with help of different buttons you print your picture. The machine is made of old found thrash like skateboard wheels, furniture old electronics.
Yesterday’s ideas of the future becomes real.

The art-piece is a computer program that creates and recreates pictures of the Swedish artist Olle Baertling. Olle Bærtling (1911-81) is one of the few Nordic artists of the second half of the 20th century who made a name for himself internationally. Initially inspired by the Concretists, he developed a style of his own with bright colors in triangular shapes, which, in his later works, appear to move out of the frames into the infinity of space, which has become the distinguishing characteristic of Bærtling.
I have been writing a computer program that creates new pictures that tries to recreate the work of Baertling. The code uses randomness to make every picture unique and different based on the work of Baertling. The program works fast and creates hundreds of pictures a minute and store them in PDF format that archives in a database. After some hours the program has created a million pictures and they are all are different from each other. The program is visual and you see the process when the program creates pictures in a pulsating and rapid move.
It could be seen as the art worlds Deep Blue, the computer that won against the world champion in chess, Kasparov.
The art piece is a comment on a society where productivity, effectiveness and profitability is keywords and where people get replaced by computers at work. How will the computerized world affect art? Will painting be replaced by code or computer or just be a tool for creating?
This art piece could be seen as a humoristic comment, but it also raises questions that we need to ask ourselves when our world is chaining and people live their life’s in front of computer screens.
The art piece could also be seen as a big experiment where I try to find the perfect picture in a database of millions of pictures. In the context of millions of pictures and the fact that a computer created the work the art pieces seems to get empty and pointless like something is missing..
The projects was also made into an artistbook.