BASALT GIFs is a curated series of 20 animated digital paintings made with a custom real‑time software built with Processing. Each piece is uniquely generated through a stochastic generative process involving simulated gestures, limited color palettes, video feedback, and graphics quantization algorithms.
The gestures repeat themselves continuously producing pigmented trails which bleed together and slowly fade out as their lifespan on the canvas diminishes. The animations loop seamlessly and are made of 90 unique individual still frames. Each animation is formatted as a 720×960 GIF.
Itsgalo
Itsgalo is the screen‑name for Galo Canizares, a designer, writer, and educator working across various creative fields from architecture to digital art to experimental software. He is currently an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design where he teaches courses on visualization and representation. Galo’s work interrogates the emerging sociotechnical effects of code, screens, and software culture. He is fascinated by the strange behaviors and aesthetics unique to computing and digital media, an interest that emerged as a kid playing with Flash and other painting software. In 2019, Galo published a collection of essays on computation, art, and design titled Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software‑Based Planet. Many of Galo’s artworks try to leverage computing to produce visually compelling and layered effects. They are often animated or use some kind of real‑time motion like simulated physics. Other recurring themes are limited color palettes, dithering, and low‑res graphics, concepts and techniques tied to the history of computer‑based art.
Works Available
All 20 works remain viewable and collectable on Verse, with full provenance and trading history. For press and private enquiries, contact the curator directly.