Randomly generated digital painting designed to be rendered as an oil painting by a robotic painting device. Also available as a component in a video wall presentation.

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Randomly generated digital painting designed to be rendered as an oil painting by a robotic painting device. Also available as a component in a video wall presentation. 

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Digital pre-painting created for a painting robot. Available as an NFT digital file and as an archival oil painting. My website has details:

<https://william-brown-bzhc.squarespace.com/>

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I create digital pre-paintings designed to be converted in archival oil paintings by the new ArtMatr painting robot just now coming on line. This way of working will radically change how paintings are made going forward. My images are generated by randomly mixing thousands of images in a computer and choosing the most interesting "accidents" of the process for creation as oil paintings. This aleatory process was originally proposed by John Cage in the 1950s and is just now practical for the creation of paintings.

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Video description of my robotic painting methodology.

The Painting Robots Have Arrived & I Feel Fine

I create digital pre-paintings designed to be rendered as oil paintings by a new robotic painting technology. 

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Created on a computer and rendered in oil paint by a robot.

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Common People 15th to 19th Centuries

Holi Becomes Chaos was shot in Barsana, India, in 2003. Holi is a traditional spring celebration featuring the throwing of colored powder, dancing, singing, flirting, feasting; all of those things one expects at a public event where the loss of inhibitions is sanctioned.  The recordings were slowed in editing for most scenes.

Ritualized violence is part of the event. Women, using sticks, beat men wearing protective hats. This is certainly a cathartic experience in a culture not known for its respect for women. 

As the day goes on the mood of the crowd changes. Fights break out among rival groups. Chaos reigns as the inebriated celebrants become combatants.


Holi Becomes Chaos

In 2012 I recorded events at the Mardi Gras celebration in Pensacola, Florida. 73 Americans was made by shooting from a truck towing a float at the parade. My camera seemed to elicit everything from obscene gestures to primate like howling screams. The recordings were slowed in editing by a factor of 10. This is the 5 minute festival version of 278 Americans, which is designed for display on a monitor in a gallery setting. 

 I decided to use traditional black and white Imagery for this work as an homage to the great documentary photographers who recorded street events with still cameras before the era of small high definition video cameras. 


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