bloom
COMMISSIONED ARTWORK FOR QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PRECINCT, KELVIN GROVE ROAD, QUEENSLAND
© 2006 JON McCORMACK
bloom
COMMISSIONED ARTWORK FOR QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PRECINCT, KELVIN GROVE ROAD, QUEENSLAND
© 2006 JON McCORMACK
bloom is a large-scale digital image, approx. 45m x 9.4m, commissioned for QUT Creative Industries precinct, Kelvin Grove Road screen in Queensland, Australia. The images are mutated and crossbred representations of native Australian flora, synthesised using software developed by the artist.
bloom continues Jon McCormack’s investigation into computer synthesised natural spaces using advanced software based on his cellular developmental model (a successor of L-system models). It forms part of a continuing proposition that synthesised natures are becoming replacements for the real nature lost in urban environments through human development and progress. It further develops the McCormack’s concept of a ‘computational sublime’ whereby computer processes inspire a sense of vastness and incomprehensibility in relation to natural spaces.
bloom being installed (Photo by Peter Lavery)