The Moth And The Flame
Michael Batty and Chris Shier
February 17th - March 18th, 2017
The Moth and the Flame explores the Internet Art concern around formal language and its linear relationship to painting in a new modern era. There is a clear connection between Shier’s moving trochoidal images and geometric Penrose tiles and Michael Batty’s large-scale paintings of an interconnected lattice and tumbling darts.
Batty uses these two styles to contrast the kinetics of stasis and motion. The first is alatticed work that evokes the charged presence of a quantum shimmer compared with the colourful tumbling darts beholden to Newtonian parameters. Both have movement but one is characteristically familiar and the other notably discreet.
This quantum/Newtonian paradox is held within each moving image created by Shier. Pixelated micro-movement describes the postural changes of the algorithm for the digitally generated effect. Differing scales of movement draw the viewer to observe painting's metaphorical rendering and the digital platform's demonstration of the photoelectric effect.
Batty uses these two styles to contrast the kinetics of stasis and motion. The first is alatticed work that evokes the charged presence of a quantum shimmer compared with the colourful tumbling darts beholden to Newtonian parameters. Both have movement but one is characteristically familiar and the other notably discreet.
This quantum/Newtonian paradox is held within each moving image created by Shier. Pixelated micro-movement describes the postural changes of the algorithm for the digitally generated effect. Differing scales of movement draw the viewer to observe painting's metaphorical rendering and the digital platform's demonstration of the photoelectric effect.