This weekend, the Long Now Foundation will host the North American debut of 77 Million Paintings, a new digital art installation by renowned visual artist and musician Brian Eno. The stunning works are a combination of constantly evolving images and sounds, all controlled by a massive bank of Macintosh desktop computers humming behind the scenes.
To create the digital sculptures, Eno generated a number of colorful digital slides and developed special software to display the images as randomly overlapping, constantly moving patterns of color and light. He also composed and collected various ambient sounds to be played back at random through a similar software application. The results are projected onto the walls or displayed on arrays of flat screen monitors.
