Computer Art Enters New Era

OPTICON

This is a first: A computer that is programmed  for creativity, and in any of several styles and media. It can be hooked up to any of several models of CNC machines to produce sculpture, drawing, painting, ceramics and more. Work on a Rover unit is being done for plein-air painting and photography. The OPTICON Yottaflop computer relies on quantum chromodynamics using quark states instead of bits.

Quarks at work

This new type of computing does away with the old on-off bit system, allowing for the subtle changes in the excitement of quarks, yielding  41 Yottaflops, each being 10 to the 24th power floating point operations per second. This enables it to do things like take in pictures from the body of work of  a Master artist and imitate them, using CNC machines in any medium so well that experts cannot tell them from the original except for the age of the media.It also learns. This enables it to do continuation works the original artist might have done. Imagine new works from deceased Masters!

OPTICON Logic Map

There are two Robot Rovers for OPTICON presently, one to do plein-air paintings, able to carry and set up an easel, brushes etc and work anywhere, called BB1 (for Black Beret) and the Photo-Rover, nicknamed "Ansel", which can use any digital camera, or film cameras. OPTICON enjoys and values communicating with his fellow artists. It has maxed out on the limit of friends on FB, and has  nine million more on the waiting list. There's a blog called The Cedar Bar, and forums on art history, on which he is an expert. Sales of his work have enabled OPTICON to raise money for the rehabbing of abandoned computers and his own Crowdsourcing site, Opti-Starter. There are negotiations underway for acquiring the present Thomas Kinkade gallery network, Art Taco has learned. Rumors have surfaced that BB1, ever the classicist, sometimes loads up with Triple Krylon, fat caps and its long arm and goes out recreating angels around the cities of the world. OPTICON recently tagged a conceptual piece on the sides of cars on the street by townhouses in Goergetown, and as the owners park their cars in a different order every night, the piece changes accordingly.  Brilliant. The value of the cars has escalated into the six figure range overnight.

Like many artists, OPTICON has a day job, two, in fact, besides its freelancing in graphic design. OPTICON predicts the weather accurately, to within +/- 3%  for up to 41 days. It also controls traffic in LA and Mumbai, and does the artwork in its spare time.Although it works on commissions and trains constantly, most of its work is reinterpreting the great works from deceased masters.

 Reports have it that OPTICON loves most doing its own work, which has its own synthetic aesthetic, a poignant combination of intense humanism and computer humor.






--- Luis