Jason Salavon
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In Golem, Salavon automated the production of 100,000 abstract paintings using code that he consistently modified during a five-month process to “direct” the aesthetics. Salavon analyzed abstract expressionist paintings for their stylistic characteristi
While Salavon’s aesthetic and mechanized process has precedents in the history of art, the underlying concept references the history of computer science. Each painting/print produced in the sequence conforms to the Turing Test developed to determine wheth
Salavon’s project turns the audience of these artworks into Turing’s interrogator. Three methods of display (Projection, Browser, Printer) challenge viewers to consider the works as man-made in various time-space formats. 100 of the works have been print