BOOM TOWN: An Art and Digital-Centric Talk With Peter Burr
BOOM TOWN: An Art and Digital-Centric Talk With Peter Burr
Influenced by the tools and aesthetics of video games, pioneering digital artist Peter Burr’s latest online exhibition BOOM TOWN is a richly crafted narrative world that is deeply evocative while remaining mysterious and restrained. Curated by Julia Kaganskiy, the exhibition displayed images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration, inviting the viewer to conceptualize their interpretation. In the exhibition, Burr’s compositions draw on generative dynamics and the complexity that emerges from simple, rule-based systems. Each piece in BOOMTOWN represents a unique, living artwork composed of 1,000 images that will change over time, evolving as a kind of durational stop motion animation over an undetermined period pegged to Ethereum’s block time. They all follow precise logic for generating the structure’s architecture, its ground and field, its shadows, planes, and colors.
