We Met Online (2019)
James Clar is an American visual artist who uses technology as a medium to critique the dissociative affects of technology itself.
James Clar, media art, lighting art, light art, pop art, interactive art, led art, minimal, installation, 3d cube, jamesclar, light and space, new media, American visual artist, medium, dissociative, disruptive technology, technology
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We Met Online

(2019)
Two Alpacas, Touch Reactive LED floor running Conway’s Game of Life simulation
Dimensions Variable

Two alpacas walk on a touch-sensor LED floor running Conway’s Game of Life program, their movement and interaction generating patterns beneath them. The alpacas act as physical avatars within a virtual space, while alluding to the psychedelic mind-spaces explored by the pre-Andean Civilizations that domesticated them.

Their movements on the interactive floor influence the evolution of the pixelized cellular automata beneath them. The phrase “we met online” is an increasingly common statement on the initial interaction for contemporary human relationships.

Exhibited:
“Fifth World Problems” pop-up exhibition during Frieze NY at Studio 525 (former space of Andrea Rosen Gallery) in Chelsea NYC.

Special Thanks:
Studio 525
WorldStage Inc
Shalimar Alpacas
Jane Lombard Gallery
Saadia Zahid
Elisabeth Johs
Rami Farook
Josh Goldberg
Aaron Parach
Matthew Schreiber
Shelly Sabel
Peter Smith
Matt Ward
Praise Shadows Art Partners