Andy Wallace

Luminance Modulations

Luminance Modulations includes selected works by New York City-based artist Andy Wallace. The exhibition features generative animations exploring text, language, and code as material and form. The animations are accompanied by selected works on paper from Wallace’s extensive series of prints created with a pen plotter, often in combination with procedural and algorithmic processes.

“My work invites people to interact with systems in new and novel ways. The joy in this kind of work comes from an interplay between the viewer and the system. Subtle rules and interactions make themselves clear over the course of the experience and understanding grows from that interplay… The computer is as much a collaborator as it is a tool… I invite people into playful experiences that reveal complex systems and meanings.” — Andy Wallace

Andy Wallace is an independent game designer and creative coder and founding member of the non-profit Death By Audio Arcade collective. He likes his digital projects to venture out into the physical world in the form of arcade machines and other magical objects. His work has been shown throughout the US and abroad.

Featured

Ribbons

2020, 9"x12", created with a pen plotter using archival quality ink on ph-neutral paper

Moiré Tiles

2022, 12" x 9", created with a pen plotter using archival quality ink on ph-neutral paper

Night Voyagers

2021, procedural code poem animation created with ASCII art and generative prose (view generative animation)

Gates

2020, 9"x12", created with a pen plotter using archival quality ink on ph-neutral paper

Intimate Codex

2016, interactive non-linear text animation (view project website)

Hex Horizon

2021, 9"x12", created with a pen plotter using archival quality ink on ph-neutral paper made with a modified flood fill algorithm