Matt Pyke & Friends
Super-Computer-Romantics
12 New Digital Artworks
Co-curated by Charlotte Leouzon / La Gaite Lyrique
21 April - 27 May 2011
La Gaite Lyrique, Paris
exhibition walkthrough
filmed by james medcraft





You/Me
9 Channel surround sound , lighting sequence
artist : matt pyke
sound : simon pyke

- A sound installation using emerging patterns of silence
to break the tension between anonymity and familiarity









Voxel Posse
96 Generative Species , 3d printing , 4 display cases
Artist : Matt Pyke
Design and code : Karsten Schmidt
Edition of 96 unique sculptures
Price on application - email

- A series of complex mathematical structures grow limbs,
forming a conscious civilisation born from generative code



















#inthissecond
3 x 50 metre message tickers , words
artist : matt pyke

- A series of proverbs capturing everything
happening at this very moment









Supreme Believers
2 HD video loops , sound
artist : matt pyke
animation : chris perry
sound : simon pyke
edition of 5 blu-ray dvds
price on application - email

- A relentless struggle towards an unseen sonic superpower,
eroding the believers into sculptural fragments











Communion
360º Projection , 648 Reactive Species , Sound
Creative Director : Matt Pyke
Design and Code : Field
Sound : Simon Pyke
Software artwork for digital display
price on application - email

- A communion of hundreds of species dancing
forever to a chorus of transcendental polyrhythms














Everywhere
Installation , HD video loop , mirrors , sound
Artist : Matt Pyke
Animation : Chris Perry
Sound : Simon Pyke
price on application - email

- An infinite video installation for one viewer,
generating a universe of self-organising life,
seeking, avoiding, following and uniting itself

















76 Seeds
76 instructional drawings , white pencil , black paper
artist : matt pyke
code : simon thompson
edition of 76 framed drawings
price on application - email

- Following computer-generated genetic instructions,
an ongoing series of botanical drawings evolving around a central stem













Electric Trees
17 Prints , invisible ink , uv light , motion sensor
artist : matt pyke
code : chris perry
edition of 17 framed prints
price on application - email

- The viewers presence gives life to trees grown from code
















The Transfiguration
HD video loop , sound , lighting sequence
artist : matt pyke
animation : realise
sound : simon pyke
edition of 5 blu-ray dvds
price on application - email

- An anthropomorphic giant endlessly evolves
between primitive and advanced materials
















Ceil
Site Specific Projection Mapping
Artist : Matt Pyke
Software artwork for digital display
price on application - email

- A series of code-based flight paths
explore the interior architecture










The Worm
Site Specific Lighting Sequence
Artist : Matt Pyke
Code : Chris Perry

- A binary worm endlessly searches the ceiling of the building








Can't Stop
HD video loop
Artist : Matt Pyke
Animation : Thomas Eberwein
edition of 5 blu-ray dvds
price on application - email

- A portrait of unstoppable thinking