South African-born artist Daniel Hirschmann has recently completed version 26 of his Engine project for the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The piece, for the museum’s gala event, is part of his ongoing project within the generative painting medium.
Engine was developed as a collaborative tools that combines pattern, structure, colour, context and process to create versioned art work. For the gala event, a large LED wall (4.5 x 3 metres) ran a live version of Engine 26. The software behind the project allows for the manipulation of live video and the output of a “painted moment in time”.
Guests were encouraged to interact with the project by “painting” the wall with their movements. Every 45 seconds these movements would be saved to a digital archive and a new blank canvas would appear.
South African-born artist Daniel Hirschmann has recently completed version 26 of his Engine project for the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The piece, for the museum’s gala event, is part of his ongoing project within the generative painting medium.
Engine was developed as a collaborative tools that combines pattern, structure, colour, context and process to create versioned art work. For the gala event, a large LED wall (4.5 x 3 metres) ran a live version of Engine 26. The software behind the project allows for the manipulation of live video and the output of a “painted moment in time”.
Guests were encouraged to interact with the project by “painting” the wall with their movements. Every 45 seconds these movements would be saved to a digital archive and a new blank canvas would appear.
