Bitclouds

These pieces are direct visualizations of binary data. The images were created from the raw bits representing executables, 3d print files, word processing documents, and other arbitrary file types. Each bit is represented as a pixel, with 0s being white pixels and 1s being black pixels. Art emerges from many files when the number of columns in the image is a multiple of eight, being that there are eight bits in a byte, and typically information is embedded in the bytes of a file.

This is found art. Instead of handlebars, they are the instructions that define a font, the header from a 3D print STL file, or data sequences embedded in a PDF. Akin to photography, they document our world from an unconventional perspective. Beauty exists in everything around us, including pure, unabstracted data. All we need to do is look closely.

Rows of square black bits sit on a white background. Features loosely resembling plants sit on top of a black bar evoking a scene of a planter. Three of the same 'plants' are next to each other in nine rows going across the entire artwork.

Aeroponics, 2024

An abstract piece with a static-like splatter of white bits on a black background. Despite their arbitrariness they form shapes that may remind someone of continents, people standing next to each other, or tire tracks in the mud.

binaryImage9, 2024

White and black feature on this piece in equal proportions. The white bits form tight circular features distributed around the piece, but never coalescing into something visible. Maybe they resemble cars on the road. Perhaps a cityscape, or rolling ocean waves.

bitStructure7, 2024

Eleven white horizontal features trace across this jet black piece that is very tall compared to its width. The features are reminiscent of sound waves, diminishing from the top highest to the most muted on the bottom wave.

Eleven, 2024

The top of this piece is a static-like bit-filled misty rain that sits above horizontal lines on a white background, evoking a body of water.

Rain On a Moonlit Lake, 2024