Dmitri Cherniak

Minted by artist

mjdata

Acquired from above

"Our heart pumps red and white blood cells around the body by means of usually yellowish blood serum. But the heart has come to mean much more than that to humanity - how we love, and how we empathize - though never exactly the same. It's the unique beat at which we live our lives.

Projections of the geometric form in the center are mapped to spheres orbiting the central figure. Although technically they are all observing the same geometric form, their perspective is warped due to their vantage point and position. Ultimately, uniqueness is in fact in the heart of the beholder.

The video is perfectly looped and despite containing elements of noise to appear random it starts and ends in the same state. The elements of perceived freedom and randomness are in fact an illusion, despite what you may be led to feel.

As a generative artist I write code that outputs unique versions of my work although the code remains the same. Uniqueness is at core of generative art, and uniqueness is at the core of cryptography."

DMITRI CHERNIAK

This piece is part of a series, see also "Uniqueness is in the eye of the beholder", and "Uniqueness is in the mind of the beholder", and "Uniqueness is in the soul of the beholder".