Quayola: Storm

In creating Storms, Quayola mapped the movement, color, and choreography of 4K video footage shot on the stormy seas near Cornwall, England, and fed the resulting vector data into an algorithm. Combining the contemporary footage with the brushwork of English luminous painters of the 19th Century, namely J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, the imagery, color, and choreography of the exhibited work is computer generated but informed by the artist's choice. Where Post-war traditions of art-making often distinguish painting as a singular form, Quayola’s Storm series develops a kinship between painting and technological media. The artist pays homage to the pigments and painterly forms central to the tradition of landscape painting. Although each video contains painterly forms that crumble towards abstraction, the works maintain their connection with data as a driving force. The resultant kinetic videos teem between the natural and digital sublime.

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