2015 Objects of Art
“Objects of Art” are codes written as JavaScript objects. These ‘virtual’ objects are presented as straight codes but each one can be ‘explored’ in further detail. An ‘exploration’ of an object will present the viewer with a usage scenario, displaying the code required to make it work and a frame displaying what it does. Viewers […] Read More
2015 For What It’s Worth
Contemporary art is driven by its success in a consumer-based society. In other words, it’s worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. That’s fine. However, there is a growing amount of art that has no resale value. It is immaterial, it is ephemeral, its value will not grow over time. This is an […] Read More
2015 Iris
Iris is an experiment with multi-colored, animated, rounded divs and webpd. Semi-transparent divs randomly expand and contract while the same random values control the frequency of oscillators in a Pure Data patch. http://pallthayer.dyndns.org/iris/ HTML5 JavaScript PureData WebPD Read More
2011 Auto-Selfie
An auto-generated, real-time self-portrait. My laptop was set to snap a photo every two minutes and then upload it to a server. There it got vectorized and then “painted” to a web page. The Auto-Selfie page PHP, Javascript, HTML5 Read More
2009 Microcodes
Microcodes are very small code-based artworks. Each one is a fully contained work of art. The conceptual meaning of each piece is revealed through a combination of the title, the code and the results of running them on a computer. As works of art these are the creative work of Pall Thayer. As programs they […] Read More
2000/2008 Sunset/Sólarlag
This piece was originally created in 2000 (see below). In 2008 I was asked to recreate it for a solo exhibition at Mejan Labs gallery in Stockholm, Sweden. The newer version worked out far better than the original. See time-lapsed video at http://vimeo.com/3000354 Perl Pure Data miscellaneous other open-source software Read More
2008 Nude Studies in Aleatoric Environments
Automated nude studies abstracted through geological intervention. Simultaneous geophysical interpretations of notions of nude-ness in the real-time of natural forces. Tectonic ripples through the core of the Earth. Perl Processing Source material: Flickr IRIS-BUD Seismic network Read More
2006 On Everything
“On Everything” generates a real-time audio/visual presentation of everything by appropriating material being shared by the worldwide public in the form of shared images and diaries. The source material is endless, thus the work goes on forever. Material is synthesized, mixed and, ultimately, abstracted, to allow for varied interpretation. “On Everything” knows nothing of the […] Read More