Systems Madness, Artblocks NFT Documentation
The Yellow Wallpaper Documentary (2023/2025), 40 minute animated loop made using custom software designed by Andrew Blanton to produce the Artblocks Systems Madness series of NFT (2023).
In Systems Madness, Claudia Hart and Andrew Blanton transform AI-generated, animated wallpaper patterns based on five floral motifs of poisonous plants into a pulsating ornamental vortex that alludes to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) in which a woman, imprisoned in her bedroom by her husband, gradually goes mad from sensory deprivation as she stares at its wallpapered walls. This work seizes on the metaphor of AI as a generator of the fictional in which lost illusions of reality have collapsed into an ominous world of anxiety and lies.
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The Ruins (2020), 10-minute audio installation, composed and recorded by Edmund Campion, using a vocal performance scripted and performed by Claudia Hart
Edmund Campion and I met in Paris in the early nineties, when we were both residents at the American Center there. I came there to produce an exhibition for the Ropac Gallery, who I worked with in Salzburg, and had just opened a dependance in Paris. In Paris, Ed and I began a fruitful 20‐year collaboration, co‐producing theatrical and performative works, including the Alice series and the audio work for the Ruins. From the beginning, I adopted characters and voices, speaking in “tongues,” for Ed to use as crazy librettos for his sophisticated modernist compositions. For The Ruins sound installation, Campion, who remains the director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley, utilized the CNMAT “Resonators~” synthesis objects designed by Adrian Freed, with support from Jeremy Wagner and the staff of CNMAT.