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Lucy Maddox and Rhys Cousins

Full light

Melbourne, VIC

For this installation, the artists shot short videos of textural surfaces in Melbourne and the way sunlight affected them, such as waves sparkling off the shore or wet glittering pavement after a rainstorm. These were put into a program called Touch Designer and then manipulated in behaviour and aesthetic into unique video work, displayed on screens in each of Assembly Point’s vitrines. While screens are traditionally seen as a purely visual medium, in “Full Light” they are presented in a tactile way; the generative art they present creates new textures that move and breathe. The wrinkled Mylar that lines the vitrines adds to the tactility of the installation, and its reflective surface augments and extends the screen’s surface. 

Objects

Canada Bay, NSW (2021)

A series of generative artworks that moved through space on four different screens within the foyer of the Canada Bay Library.

Objects is a series of generative art videos created using images of Rhodes and the City of Canada Bay to bring a new perspective to the local area. Generative art is an emerging digital art form in which artists create work with the help of autonomous, algorithmic decisions made by computer programs. This process allows for the exploration of ideas, colours, forms, shapes, and patterns in a way that challenges traditional representational art.

Mire (Rhys Cousins)

Hobson’s Bay, VIC (2022)

Laneway Gallery presents ‘Mire (particles)’ an exhibition by Rhys Cousins featuring a series of abstract generative textures to foreground landscape complexity and process, providing an intimate approach for local viewers who may often overlook them. The exhibition aims to bring a sensitivity and closeness to the theme of diversity (environment and biodiversity), encouraging viewers to build a more intimate relationship and interpretation of our local landscape and environment.

The work is made using photographic input of natural reserves and waterways around the Laverton Creek and its mouth opening into the bay, before combining artistic intent with algorithmic generation in the program TouchDesigner, which emphasizes the generative nature of the artwork.