generative art – Steve Meyfroidt, Artist

An Artist’s Book About Climate

I’ve spent a good part of 2022 working on ideas related to both the local climate and the changing global climate. Locally I’ve filled a sketchbook with drawings of the River Caldew not far from home, all made from the same place using coloured pencils and a brush pen in a beautiful Khadi book. ThatContinue reading “An Artist’s Book About Climate”

Dark Matter/Fundamental

In a world without quantum mechanics, we have to imagine a world where our mobile phones are built from vacuum tubes like in the olden days. Luckily we do have modern physics to give us properly mobile phones, and GPS satellites, and the internet. But the model of our universe that modern physics proposes isContinue reading “Dark Matter/Fundamental”

Fruitful Exhibition, and beyond

When Florence Arts put out an open call for work made in response to the prompt “Fruitful,” I recalled a quote I’d heard that described quantum mechanics as the most fruitful science we’ve had in the last hundred or so years. I forget where I heard it, but it came into my head anyway. MyContinue reading “Fruitful Exhibition, and beyond”

Fragile Power

A recent series of collaborations culminated in four works shown at a group exhibition at the Florence Arts Centre running from 6th November to 19th December. Exhibition RE:FORM. An exhibition by Art Crit North Cumbria. Florence Arts Centre: 6th November – 18th December 2021. RE:FORM is a collaborative project which asked artists to make aContinue reading “Fragile Power”

Music

In a quest to find the right place for technology in my artistic practice, I’m realising that the point may simply be that I can “do more” using computer-aided tools than is possible by hand. For a recent project I found a place for some simple software in analysing the spectrum of a piece ofContinue reading “Music”

The Imperfect Robot

I’ve been researching Harold Cohen’s work recently. He was an acclaimed “traditional” painter until discovering computers when he changed track to pursue work made with a floor-roaming, pen-wielding wheeled robot controlled by his AARON software, which seems like his investigation into the mechanics of painting. He made work in this way from the 1960s toContinue reading “The Imperfect Robot”

Fluid

I’m interested in the behaviour of fluids in relation to complexity theory, particularly the way that emergent behaviours can arise from large systems of simple elements. Think of water, a simple molecule, uninteresting except perhaps for a charge difference between its ends. Then think of huge ocean waves rolling into shore… you’d never imagine thatContinue reading “Fluid”