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Don Relyea graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts in 1992 where he was a print making major and a merit scholarship student.
Upon graduation he dove headlong into the multimedia software industry producing video and interactive CD content for publishers and clients. In the multimedia industry he developed a love for programming graphics on computers and now produces art in several media both traditional and digital.
During the 90's he spent a lot of time touring the southwest doing music and non-linear video art in a variety of industrial and avant garde electronic projects, Jump Rope Girls, Ropelab, evilcomputergenius, and 7 Vials of the Apocalypse. All performances were hallmarked by stacks of old tvs and video projection displaying the most recent video works by Relyea. Relyea was also part of the AI Collective and a founder of Sub-Tronic Theatre a live electronic music and media showcase.
Over the years Relyea has developed and interest in algorithmic composition. Rather than creating algorithms as art in their own right, he strives to write algorithms that simulate his own creative process. He breaks down the process of designing, enlarging, and rendering an image on paper or canvas and tries to translate that to the digital realm.
He also has a variety of on going projects that revolve around the concept of dynamic art and contextual art. Computer based art that changes based on time and dynamic information. The most recent of these projects is the Real Time Contextual Art Generator. There is a project in the works that dissects spam and creates a contextually fragmented audio visual experience out of the diced spam.
Recent Publications
MocoLoco.com, a modern contemporary design zine wrote an article here, Jan. 17 2006.
Real Time Contextual Art Generator published August 2005 at premier software art portal www.runme.org
Digital Art Guild Challenge October 2005
Playstation Portable Gallery Open Zone
Antwerp art and noise rag Rotkop Magazine 2004 (ROTKOP issue #8) now freaksendfuture.com
Current Software Art Projects
Hilbert Space Filling Curve Art Generator
Lo-Fi Art Generator
Real Time Contextual Art Generator v1.1 update (lots of new features!)
Spam poetry art generator
The Good the Bad and Ugly series
Hair Particle Drawing Program
Artificial Artist --Art AI (code modules that work together to make art like a human would)
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