TRAVESS SMALLEY

Smalley (b. 1986, USA) lives and works in Rhode Island.

His art practice developed in New York City and online through the digital surf clubs Loshadka and Computers Club, spanning algorithmic drawing, scanner-based collage, and generative publishing. He has exhibited extensively internationally, and his work has been shown at institutions including Kunsthal Rotterdam and the International Center of Photography, New York. It is held in the collections of the ZKM Center for Art and Media, the MoMA Library, and the Bibliotheque Kandinsky - Centre Pompidou. He is an assistant professor of Print Media at the University of Rhode Island.

 

"My studio is a place arranged for chance combinations.

Electronics, servers, motors, and processors crowd the space, where ethernet cables hang like vines and power cords spread like roots. Game consoles play themselves, cameras and sensors capture everything, and columns of prints and drawings hold up the ceiling while plants spill into any open space. Machines call and respond: printers shooting pages to scanners, loops of sound and color compression passing through screens, each device waiting to interpret the other. Small motors trigger pens that trace bitmap paths across muted ivory cardstock, building pixel grids that shift between woven rugs and computer chips.