Non Objective Painting

This installation sets up a tense dialogue between obsolete technology and algorithmic generation. The Sony Trinitron CRT, a relic of a warm, analogue era of display, shows a succession of 1,640 AI-generated abstract paintings, scrolling at the slow rate of 0.49 Hz. This hypnotic rhythm, slightly out of step with immediate perception, creates a visual pulse that questions our relationship to contemplation and time.

The Yamaha PSS 595 synthesiser, modified by circuit bending, releases unexpected sonic potential: its rerouted circuits produce organic, unpredictable textures that pass through a Mutable Instruments Beads module for further granulation. The sounds come out of the television's own speakers, creating a material unity between visual and sound source — a fusion of the obsolete and the contemporary that gives the old set artistic agency again.

The algorithmic paintings, generated from an analysis of the non-objective forms of Klee and Kandinsky, recall historical abstraction while revealing the machine's biases and patterns. No narrative progression, the endless flow of images, the warm texture of the CRT against the cold calculation of generated pixels: everything converges to question how dead and emerging technologies produce qualitatively different contemplative experiences. An archaeology of a future that has already happened.