Sobre el artista
Markos Kay
(UK/CY) Artista y director multidisciplinar con un enfoque en arte y ciencia, abstracción digital y arte generativo. Su trabajo puede describirse como una investigación constante del paradigma computacional en ciencia y cultura contemporánea a través del uso de generadores de métodos. En 2016 quedó discapacitado debido a una enfermedad neuroinmune crónica conocida como ME/CFS que para 2019 lo dejó confinado permanentemente en su casa y en gran parte en cama. Kay continúa creando obras de arte, ilustraciones científicas e imágenes en movimiento dentro de los límites de su discapacidad, y en 2020 comenzó a publicar sus bocetos personales que ha ido desarrollando durante su enfermedad.
Flora / Fauna
Is a series of digital animations and prints inspired by recent advancements in biocomputing and AI. The series imagines what it is like inside the mind of a neural network where connections and patterns exist in a kind of liminal state and superposition of possibilities. This is visualised as biomorphic hybrids of nature and technology, combining imagery such as anatomical structures, nerve cells, computer circuits and fractals. The series explores the implications of a world where nature and technology have become so intertwined and questions whether there is a fundamental difference between the artificial and the natural.
Biocomputer
Is a series of animations and prints, inspired by the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch and the hybridization process found in neural networks. The series imagines the latent space of neural network associations as a hidden garden where otherworldly hybrid creatures and plants exist, as dreamt by artificial intelligences. Just like Bosch’s work interrogates the place of humans in the universe, this series questions our definitions of life and intelligence which may be limited by our anthropocentric biases.