Illuminations (2025)
Mixed-media Installation
bitforms gallery, NYC
Illuminations brings together diverse elements pulled from Hart's library of decorative patterns and icons. These symbols incorporate a variety of graphics: the heraldry of failed empires, corporate logos, linguistic pictorial symbols like emoji, mathematical signs, decorative alphabets, and tile patterns culled from world cultures. The artist uses symbols as a basic visual vocabulary to incorporate larger algorithmic patterns that she then animates. Her signs and signifiers flicker, sometimes regularly and sometimes randomly, like techniques used by hypnotists to mesmerize and bring viewers into a trance state.
Hart uses framing devices to unify her research-based language, drawn from different cultures and moments in history but unified by her themes, primarily dealing with the collapse of empires and the reified tropes of Western culture. The Illuminations feature dynamic 3D animated works which use motion capture, AI, and real-time encoding, brought together and encased in decorated wooden frames. The frames are fabricated through a hybrid process in which handiwork is combined with photography and a sophisticated computer-controlled printing technique produced by a “UV” printer that is driven by the same technology and takes the same form as flatbed CNC routers. Each Illuminations contains a miniature monitor in a solid state audio-visual player that showcases a looping media work, including both legacy pieces produced between 2002–2019 , and recent works from several concurrent series. Together, these animated paintings frame a poetic space: a meditation on the process of history, collapse and regeneration, mortality, and of art as a means of transcendence.
Illuminations (2025)
Mixed-media Installation
bitforms gallery, NYC
Illuminations brings together diverse elements pulled from Hart's library of decorative patterns and icons. These symbols incorporate a variety of graphics: the heraldry of failed empires, corporate logos, linguistic pictorial symbols like emoji, mathematical signs, decorative alphabets, and tile patterns culled from world cultures. The artist uses symbols as a basic visual vocabulary to incorporate larger algorithmic patterns that she then animates. Her signs and signifiers flicker, sometimes regularly and sometimes randomly, like techniques used by hypnotists to mesmerize and bring viewers into a trance state.
Hart uses framing devices to unify her research-based language, drawn from different cultures and moments in history but unified by her themes, primarily dealing with the collapse of empires and the reified tropes of Western culture. The Illuminations feature dynamic 3D animated works which use motion capture, AI, and real-time encoding, brought together and encased in decorated wooden frames. The frames are fabricated through a hybrid process in which handiwork is combined with photography and a sophisticated computer-controlled printing technique produced by a “UV” printer that is driven by the same technology and takes the same form as flatbed CNC routers. Each Illuminations contains a miniature monitor in a solid state audio-visual player that showcases a looping media work, including both legacy pieces produced between 2002–2019 , and recent works from several concurrent series. Together, these animated paintings frame a poetic space: a meditation on the process of history, collapse and regeneration, mortality, and of art as a means of transcendence.