JAKIMAS Contemporary Art - Main Gallery - 2020
Truth Beyond the Veil of Our Dimension
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John Jakimas is an artist who claims to have discovered an algorithmic process that can manifest new images from other images by using this algorithmic process.
(Q) - How did you first discover this algorithmic process?
(A) First I would like to say that I have been a painter all my life and knew very little about computers or computer science. I discovered this algorithmic process back in 2013 while exploring one of my paintings using my computers graphic's program. I was shocked to find that the algorithm I was using began to reveal new and totally different images from the original. I refer to these new images as manifestations. I did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm already existed within another program. All I did was discover it was there.
(Q) How do these images manifest? Do they just appear spontaneously while you are working with the algorithm?
(A) No, the algorithm allows me to explore images gradually, step by step in stages until other images begin to appear. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to as long as a few days. The average time period is about an hour or two.
(Q) How do you select the images you explore. Are certain images better then others?
(A) I usually select images that appeal to me often with a lot of detail and complexity but the truth is any image, even the most mundane, can manifest new images. I have explored a wide of images, everything you can imagine from wallpaper to classic works of art. I have explored thousands of images since 2013.
(Q) Your images seem to connect to the supernatural or tap into that realm.
(A) Very often they appear to tap into that supernatural area but I am finding there is actually a wide realm of possibilities. Often they are just purely aesthetic. Why this is I do not know. Perhaps because molecules of light are so malleable.
To be continued.
(Q) - How did you first discover this algorithmic process?
(A) First I would like to say that I have been a painter all my life and knew very little about computers or computer science. I discovered this algorithmic process back in 2013 while exploring one of my paintings using my computers graphic's program. I was shocked to find that the algorithm I was using began to reveal new and totally different images from the original. I refer to these new images as manifestations. I did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm already existed within another program. All I did was discover it was there.
(Q) How do these images manifest? Do they just appear spontaneously while you are working with the algorithm?
(A) No, the algorithm allows me to explore images gradually, step by step in stages until other images begin to appear. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to as long as a few days. The average time period is about an hour or two.
(Q) How do you select the images you explore. Are certain images better then others?
(A) I usually select images that appeal to me often with a lot of detail and complexity but the truth is any image, even the most mundane, can manifest new images. I have explored a wide of images, everything you can imagine from wallpaper to classic works of art. I have explored thousands of images since 2013.
(Q) Your images seem to connect to the supernatural or tap into that realm.
(A) Very often they appear to tap into that supernatural area but I am finding there is actually a wide realm of possibilities. Often they are just purely aesthetic. Why this is I do not know. Perhaps because molecules of light are so malleable.
To be continued.
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