JUSTIN TAGG
SOTA ENTRY
Hi, my name’s Justin - also known as DEVOID for my artwork (more info here). I’m a multi-dimensional storyteller, with poetry published in international journals, films screened around the world and at the early stages of my journey with visual art.
Most of my art has two things in common:
1) It’s influenced by my love for abstract minimalism and the works of Rothko, Riley, Pollock and Stella
2) And it’s fed through my personal interest in maths, the multiverse, and the technology I grew up with - Atari games, dial-up internet and VHS.
There is also a third factor that connects much of my art, which is that I tend to create alongside a wider story. My work for LIQUID SWITCHBOARD and MORE ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND are adjacent to my novel, PERIVALE. Almost every collection I produce crosses over with one of my literary collections.
LIQUID SWITCHBOARD 001 + 002
Medium: Generative Digital Art
Dimensions (framed) : 14.7″ × 21.4″
Suggested Price: £450
FLOURISH: PSYCHONAUT, WALTZ IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION, and SNOW DAY
Medium: Digital Abstract Art
Dimensions (framed): 18.2″ × 23.2″
Suggested Price: £450
MORE ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND: FLATLAND. SUNSET and A SYMPHONY OF SQUARES
Medium: Generative Art (displayed as NFT in digital frame)
Dimensions (framed): 23.6″ × 15.3″
Suggested Price: £1250
MORE ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND pieces are stored as NFTs, which allows them to be ‘live’ artworks (i.e. they look like video, but are infinitely in motion, rarely, if ever, looking the same twice). They are framed with a special NFT enabled physical frame with a matte, anti-glare display that must connect to Wi-Fi and have a power supply. I think of these pieces as ‘living abstracts’.
LIQUID
SWITCHBOARD
GENERATIVE | 2 PIECES | 1/1 FRAMED | £450
‘LIQUID SWITCHBOARD’ [2023] is a collection of fictional landscapes, depicting a location from the literary works PERIVALE and META/VERSE by Justin Tagg. The Liquid Switchboard is the place from which all multiverses are accessed, and appears as a kind of fluid, organic, writhing space - whereas it is actually the space between spaces, that exists beyond time and form. Here, every thing is connected to everything.
The Liquid Switchboard is a piece of GENERATIVE ART, produced through a carefully curated piece of code that delivers a unique output every time it’s run.
I have curated 64 pieces (from more than 500,000 possibilities) and am submitting three of these 1/1 pieces to SOTAs Accessible Art Fair. Each piece is framed.
Liquid Switchboard 001
Liquid Switchboard 002
FLOURISH
DIGITAL ABSTRACT | 2 PIECES |
1/10 FRAMED | £450
‘FLOURISH’ [2022] is a series of digital abstracts, influenced by Atari video games, science fiction, VHS tracking, and dial-up internet. If Rothko had squares, this generation has glitches, loops, repeats, and digital ghosting.
WALTZ IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION has been exhibited internationally this year, after being selected by curator ‘SUPERCHIEF’ - specialising in contemporary digital art.
Snow Day
Waltz in the Fifth Dimension
Psychonaut
MORE ADVENTURES
IN FLATLAND
COMPUTATIONAL ART | 2 PIECES | 1/1 FRAMED | £1250
MORE ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND ‘FLATLAND, SUNSET’
Please note, due to the ‘software’ nature of these pieces, I’ve embedded the code above, which is why it has a ‘header’ at the top of the image. This would not display when framed - it will only display prior to the work being ‘minted’ to the blockchain for this example.
‘More Adventures in Flatland’ [2023] is a series of ‘living’ abstracts that depict the location known as ‘Flatland’ in other narrative works by Justin Tagg (DEVOID).
This collection is influenced by the work of Josef Albers, Vera Molnar, and old Atari video games.
Generative art is essentially computational art. There are more than 1 million iterations - I have selected 2 pieces for SOTA, which are available prior to the full collection of 256 being released in October. Being a piece of code, this work is not a video, but is more like a piece of software and will rarely look exactly the same twice.
MORE ADVENTURES IN FLATLAND ‘A SYMPHONY OF SQUARES’