Awry–Awash
Michael Bruner &  Jeff Morris

»Click«—the smallest digital utterance, by itself a flaw, a sign of trouble or neglect. But compounded, allowed to fester in a system that is fertile with its own resonances, a natively digital voice can emerge from it, richer than a human mind would likely conceive alone.

A seemingly insignificant glitch, a whisper of malfunction, becomes the seed of a complex and resonant digital voice. Microtemporal glitches—down to 1/48,000th of a second—pile up and yield rhythms, pitches, textures, and gestures as well as visual forms that lie outside the coder-artist’s direct grasp, and just as they build up, they erode or are subsumed by another wave rising from the detritus, washing over and splashing back. This work sees these minimal flaws transform into an audiovisual blooming that transcends its origins in corruption. The resulting visuals portray the clash and harmony between nature’s organic forms and the spontaneity of technology unmonitored. The cool, fluid visuals envelop the viewer, creating a space where the artificial and the natural coalesce.

The room itself breathes with the vibrant interplay of light and shadow, an ecosystem born from the very glitches we often overlook. It challenges the notion of flaw, beauty, design, and voice, a catalyst for digital art that echoes the intricate patterns of the natural world—Here, the digital and the natural are not adversaries but co-conspirators, ultimately roommates in the same universe, in creating a tapestry of undesigned beauty.



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Michael Bruner is a media artist, interactive designer, teacher and vegetable gardener fascinated by living systems. From growing plants to making generative video these living systems are full of emergent properties made visible through feedback with self and environment.

Connecting these principles into creative processes is central to Michael’s work. Michael is currently an instructional assistant professor in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, teaching interactive media and design.




 
A professor at Texas A&M University and director of the new Music Technology Program, Jeff Morris creates musical experiences that engage audiences’ minds with their surroundings. His performances, installations, lectures, and writings appear in international venues known for cutting-edge arts and deep questions in the arts. He has won awards for making art emerge from unusual situations, and his music is on Ravello Records.


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