LACMA - Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
November 24th, 2024 to July 13, 2025
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/digital-witness-revolutions-design-photography-and-film
November 24th, 2024 to July 13, 2025
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/digital-witness-revolutions-design-photography-and-film
Improvisational Assembly #132 - Of Puzzling Purpose - 2022 - Kevin Mack
Generative AI, digital painting and compositing
30" x 22.5" - Pigment print on cotton rag
Generative AI, digital painting and compositing
30" x 22.5" - Pigment print on cotton rag
From the LACMA website: "Over the last four decades, image-editing software has radically transformed our visual world. The ease with which images and text can be digitally generated and altered has enabled new forms of creative experimentation, while also sparking philosophical debates about the very nature of representation. Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to the present, for the first time assessing simultaneous developments and debates in the fields of photography, graphic design, and visual effects. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism, and storytelling modes. The nearly 200 artists, designers, and makers in Digital Witness illuminate today's visual culture where digital editing tools are easier to access than ever before."
Cannibal Flower X Gabba Gallery
April 19 - May 17, 2025
https://www.gabbagallery.com/cannibal-flower
April 19 - May 17, 2025
https://www.gabbagallery.com/cannibal-flower
About My Creative Process
I’ve been making art using computer graphics for nearly 40 years. I've experimented with diverse processes, mediums, and creative technologies in my efforts to understand and harness the power of emergence. Emergence is the appearance of novel properties and behaviors that arise from the interactions between the parts of a system. Put simply, it’s when new things are created from the interactions between existing things. I've come to recognize emergence as the essential mechanism in all creative processes, from the subatomic to the astronomic. I’ve studied an eclectic range of fields, from physics to neuroscience, to gain deeper insights into emergence and the creative process. My practice integrates art, science, technology, and intentional effort to realize my conceptual and aesthetic objectives. I aim to produce works that inspire awe, engage the imagination, and evoke insight by cultivating, directing, and collaborating with emergence.
I’ve been making art using computer graphics for nearly 40 years. I've experimented with diverse processes, mediums, and creative technologies in my efforts to understand and harness the power of emergence. Emergence is the appearance of novel properties and behaviors that arise from the interactions between the parts of a system. Put simply, it’s when new things are created from the interactions between existing things. I've come to recognize emergence as the essential mechanism in all creative processes, from the subatomic to the astronomic. I’ve studied an eclectic range of fields, from physics to neuroscience, to gain deeper insights into emergence and the creative process. My practice integrates art, science, technology, and intentional effort to realize my conceptual and aesthetic objectives. I aim to produce works that inspire awe, engage the imagination, and evoke insight by cultivating, directing, and collaborating with emergence.
Anandala is an abstract virtual world populated with intelligent, expressive, Artificial-Life beings. Anandala has exhibited around the world in Museums and Festivals and was an Official Selection of the of the 78th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, in 2021.
Anandala is available on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868600/Anandala/
Anandala User Guide
More about Anandala
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868600/Anandala/
Anandala User Guide
More about Anandala
Copies of Emergent Visions - AI Art by Kevin Mack, are still available.
Emergent Visions Book page
Emergent Visions Book page
Namuanki
Official Selection of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia 2022
Official Selection and was nominated for Best Immersive World at Raindance Immersive 2022
Official Selection and winner of the People's Choice and Technical Achievement Awards at FIVARS 2022
The Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories.
Official Selection of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia 2022
Official Selection and was nominated for Best Immersive World at Raindance Immersive 2022
Official Selection and winner of the People's Choice and Technical Achievement Awards at FIVARS 2022
The Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories.
Kent Bye and I had an in depth discussion of Namuanki and my work on his Voices of VR podcast - https://voicesofvr.com/1120-kevin-macks-procedural-worldbuilding-vrchat-in-for-venice-immersive-competition/
VR Journalist, Ian Hamilton, filmed this cool video during a tour of Namuanki - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj8Tc1qnp_0&t=1s
Kevin Mack VRography
Shape Space (2014) - Zen Parade (2015) - Blortasia (2017) - Devalaya Rupanam (2019) - Anandala (2021) - Namuanki (2022)
Shape Space (2014) - Zen Parade (2015) - Blortasia (2017) - Devalaya Rupanam (2019) - Anandala (2021) - Namuanki (2022)