Gallery

“Extinction Anxieties”

These are just some of the one-hundred pieces that were generated for this project.

The Genesis Collection

In late December of 2021 I released a small collection of art on OpenSea that I called Glatch by Gage. Originally the idea was to release a 100 piece collection, but I added a few more as time went on just for fun. I didn’t have a game plan, all I knew was that I didn’t want to stop making generative art. The first 100 in this collection were the very first iteration in the Glatch system I built.

https://opensea.io/collection/glatchbygage

After I finished curating the first 100 pieces, the notion of going all in to create a one-thousand piece collection with dense iterations and experimenting, went from being a hobby to an obsession. I went from making them for fun here or there, to spending all my free time doing it, to spending all my waking hours on the project in order to reach my goal of 1000 high quality pieces of art.

Iteration 9 “Steinbeck” Glatches

I call these my Steinbeck Glatches because these pieces give me feelings of the American Midwest. They remind me of seeing my mother’s side of the family in Kansas, they remind me of countless airport tarmacs and layovers before I get home to L.A. from the east coast.

6k, additional trait “steinbeck,” and displacement make some of these pieces quite rare in the collection.

This was in the same vein of my first generative art project, found lower in this page, called Psuedo-Symmetry. The idea of an imperfect symmetry has been a part of my artistic identity for years and I wanted a chance to explore those concepts with my Glatches as well.

All I did for this section was remove the edge detection from the system. This removed the white oversized oulines over the piece which gives the glatch it’s characteristic look.

Psuedo-Symmetry: A Study in Psychedelia

In the art world, we can discover psychedelia by exploring symmetry. But as is often found in the case of a real psychedelic experience, noise, imperfections, and alien imbalance in the visuals play a key role. I strive to avoid a psychedelia that is fitted with straight edges and jagged lines. In this study, I aim to create a psychedelia that is loosely symmetrical and highly colorful- overlapping geometries and colored layers fuse together to generate unexpected hues and forms, while still maintaining a consistent balance of whites, blacks and greys in the composition. While from afar the piece appears to be smooth and flowing by design, looking closely will reveal a deceptively glitchy pixel displacement in certain areas of the piece, giving it a certain digital touch that I love so much.

Portal

Do you believe in magic? This series seeks to generate magical portals to another land… But where do they go? Nobody really knows. . . I never actually go in. I just stare at them.  

MORPH: A clock-time evolving visual installation

MORPH is a visual installation that changes color according to the time of day. It was one of my first projects with TouchDesigner where I integrated data from the clock time. I find this to be a useful technique in order to create dynamic, long-form installations. The visual composition is keeping in line with my fascination with imperfect symmetries in visual systems.