By Maria Esteves – September 8, 2010

The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum and Google, Inc. presented Digital Art @Google: Data Poetics, June 11-August 13, 2010 at Google, Inc., New York. Public viewing and artist talks included Scott Draves, R. Luke Dubois, Aaron Koblin, Mark Napier, W. Bradford Paley, Lincoln Schartz, John F. Simon, Jr., Thomson & Graghead, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viegas.

The opening art exhibition and public talk of Generation 243 by award winning software artist Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep commenced Thursday, August 5, 6:00 PM. Draves’ extraordinary and astonishing abstract animation artwork is made with his original 1991 mathematical Flame algorithm. Each image is the solution to an equation with thousands of parameters and millions of variables, displayed on a high definition television. The 243rd generation of sheep by cyborg mind in the Electric Sheep website made Generation 243.  

Draves’ private collection is on display at Google, Inc. and New York’s Museum of Modern Art website  His artwork has appeared in the front cover of Leonardo Journal, Wired, and Discover magazines. Draves’ is winner of VIDA/Life Festival, Madrid; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Critic's Award, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal; Harmony Channel Award and Director's Special Spirit Award, 2007 DomeFest, Albuquerque, NM. To download a free screensaver and join cyborg mind visit: http://www.electricsheep.org. For more information, visit: http://www.scottdraves.com.

Digital Art @Google: Data Poetics, Scott Draves, GENERATION 243, 2009
Original software, non-repeating playback of 12GB (gigabyte) of 1080p
(pixel) nonlinear video, Internet community consisting of 350,000 people
and computers.

Digital Art @Google: Data Poetics, award winning software artist
Scott Draves with exhibit GENERATION 243.