Artist Blog: Jason Salavon

Jason Salavon is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his use of computer software of his own design to manipulate and reconfigure preexisting media and data to create new visual works of fine art.

One of his coolest pieces is his All the Ways (The Simpsons) video! He says, “The composition includes algorithmically mixed audio and combines both standard & high definition seasons. Reconsidering a promise to stop making these types of pieces (begun in 1997), the project belongs to a large suite of works (including murals, prints, books & video) reorganizing and manipulating episodes of The Simpsons – as data – in related, but varied ways.  The overall project represents the synthesis and unification of my amalgamation work (Playboys, Homes, etc.) with my color-averaged frame work (Titanic, EAO, etc). By varying parameters, a single software process produces compositions capable of a huge breadth (all the ways) of data representation.  Most importantly, it maps a contiguous space inhabited by these previously distinct styles.”

Something else really cool is his Baroque & Impressionist Painting he made in 2010. (shown below). 

“These two prints sample and reformat color taken from history of Western painting. Impressionist Painting uses Claude Monet’s 100 most expensive paintings¹ to derive (quantize) the 1024-color palette most representative of these paintings in aggregate. This palette is then used to generate the image where line-width is proportional to color frequency and position is based on color saturation.  The aim in ordering-by-saturation² is to introduce depth and a sense of sfumato to a rigidly geometric optical work.  The Baroque Painting work replicates this process using the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens.”

MY FAVE OF ALL HIS WORK IS THIS THOUGH::::