A fragmented, evolving data landscape echoing and looping through time
This piece is inspired by early explorations in geometric abstraction, particularly Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, and the 19th century experimental photography of Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge. Through layers of transformation, the piece remixes a choreography of human movement and geometry into a meditative, temporal experience.
Perpetual Now II is co-presented by Meta Open Arts and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) at Meta, where the work was developed while in residence.
Running time: 6 minutes, 40 seconds
Scott Eaton
Perpetual Now II
Scott Eaton
Perpetual Now II
Intersections
Intersections is a new experimental work about data, complexity, randomness, and value. The piece was developed from a single QR code photographed in a dirty alley, advertising an event long past. This source image, a simple but iconic reminder of our data-saturated contemporary existence, is distorted and remixed through layers of random processes using animation and machine learning. As a seed is unrecognisable from the plant it yields, the original data is transformed into a cascading landscape of evolving geometry – structured but abstract and unpredictable – intermittently evoking ideas of architecture, Art Deco, or intertwined networks of urban grids. The result is a meditation on the complexity of the digital landscapes that surround us.
Intersections screens at Living Canvas in a loop with Scott Eaton’s Perpetual Now II.
Scott Eaton
Intersections (Detail)
Scott Eaton
Intersections (Detail)
Scott Eaton
Intersections (Detail)
Scott Eaton
Intersections (Detail)
Scott Eaton
Scott Eaton is an American artist residing in London. His work explores the human condition and our increasingly complex relationship with technology, by transforming and remixing our data into artistic experiences. His art and designs have been featured in Wired Magazine, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and shown and collected internationally. In addition to his own projects, Scott frequently collaborates with other artists, studios and research labs, clients include: Pixar, Disney, Industrial Light and Magic, Nvidia, Meta and others. Scott studied at MIT and the Royal College of Art.
