Digital artist Tabor Robak’s most recent works generate imagery via custombuilt computers. Skypad is an abstract animation that is constantly in the process of constructing itself, layering linear shapes of various widths and complexities. Its slow pace, multifarious forms and color palettes spawn an appearance of textural depth. The result is an artwork that appears perpetually incomplete, forever moving towards an unattainable horizon.
The work seems to mimic certain aesthetic elements of traditional painting, but Robak’s intention is not to comment on the history of art. Instead, he attributes those similarities to comparable creative ambitions, resulting in shared compositional and coloristic choices. By re-contextualizing elements of painting, the artist explores the power and potential of computers as active agents in art-making. In a sense, he is teaching machines to paint.
