Multiplicity the idea of manyness.

how does our perception change when presented with many?

Artists have experimented with this idea, one in particular Joshua Davis presents electronically generated graphic compositions of almost unimaginable complexity and individuality.  His work combines form in soo many different ways that it would be impossible to recreate by hand.

“working this way allows me to generate an infinite number of compositions, i set the boundraries and the rules but whatever comes out at the end is a suprise, it could look cool, it could fail, it could be life changing”

Davis’s process allow him to create multiple artworks quikly, each being unique from the last.  To set an enviroment and let the computer do the rest with a program leaves the computer to create what it thinks it should.

Another artist who follows the same process of creating multiplicty in artwork is James Patterson, an illustrator who hand draws his peices, and them imports them into flash, to let the computer create random and unique compostions.  This juxtaposed to Davis’s work, i a way that being handdrawn makes it more organic.  Therefore you get a mix of human and mahcine.

However Muliplicty is not only seen in the technological world, but also nature.  For example look at the spots on the back of a cheetah or a lady bug is this not muliplicty?

Muliplicity has changed the internet, there is now so much information you can find anything you ever wanted?  anything you wanted to read about or see a picture of is now somewhere hiding in the internet.

The idea of being able to make a copy of something with the click of the finger makes multiplicity on the internet the most important development.

So have a look at these images and see how you feel about multiplicty.

sam