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Deconstructing Seurat

2005
Computer and 21" LCD unit, vector drawings and bespoke software
Edition of 10
Published by Alan Cristea


This work consists of a custom made computer fitted behind a 21" monitor that hangs on the wall like a small painting. It runs a randomized program of a work based on Seurat's Bathers. The composition and the colour of the work are constantly but slowly altering. The eight figures independently fade, disappear, and eventually re-emerge. At the same time each of the six areas forming the landscape slowly change colour through a range of nineteen alternatives.