The body of work in this collection at Goodfriend Beer Garden is titled “Bombshell” and is based on video art piece I did a year or so ago by the same name. These prints are inspired by bombshells from the 50s 60s 70s like Sophia Loren, Stella Stevens, Elke, Twiggy, Raquel Welch and Sharon Tate....
Dallas Aurora 2011 was a huge success! “Flowers and Tendrils” as well as “Bombshell” were installed on the roof of the parking garage across from the Winspear on Friday 10/28/2011 as part of the Aurora Dallas 2011 video and art festival. I have been to several similar festivals at this point and Aurora Dallas was...
I have just finished a new electronic house track titled “4AM”. It is a very melodic electro house track. The lead synth reminds me of of the old rave sounds of the 90′s. Feel free to let me know what you think and feel free to download it. (the arrow pointing down is the download...
The above Flickr Sideshow (click this link if on iPad) is a batch of selected images from my ongoing Algorithmic Exploration of the Square series. This project consists of a program that creates a new work every day which it then posts to my blog, flickr, twitter and now defunct tumblr page (I think I maxed the...
With the 2012 elections around the corner I decided to spend some time this week brushing up on my political portraiture skills. So many clowns in Washington, so little time. I thought to myself… hmmm, who should I pick on for this exercise? With all the talk of the debt ceiling John Boehner has been...
This is one of my first trashy electro house tracks, I also have several new melodic electro tracks in the works that should be ready to share soon. I think I got a little heavy handed in some parts of this one but it has its moments. The sample is from one of my favorite...
Late last year I decided to revisit my old Hilbert with Helipads and Ladders prototype. I was easily able to get it up and running and generating decent resolution output. I will be periodically posting the new works to my blog in the category Helipads with Ladders. I have created a flickr set so you...
401_06, Meret Oppenheim and several other print works will be heading to Ft. Worth this summer for an exhibition at the Mercedes Benz Financial campus. My work will be part of a group exhibition with other members of SMU and TCU faculty, students and alumni. The Exhibition is up online as well here. “401_06″ by Don Relyea at...
Flowers with Tendrils and 401_06 from my space filling curve art project will be exhibited in Vancouver August 5th – 7th as part of the 2011 Joint Symposia on Computational Aesthetics, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. CAE 2011 is a collocated conference with Siggraph 2011 also in Vancouver. Flowers with Tendrils Final...
Bombshell accepted in the New Media Caucus CAA video showcase at CAA: NYC 2011. Music: “If we live our lives the right way” by Don Relyea, “If we live our lives the right way”(Bombshell Mix) ( 192khz MP3) Right Click to Download MP3 Bombshell from Don Relyea on Vimeo.
Obama Agenda Under Fire January 2010 Agendas Under Fire I have modified my particle drawing program to do a bunch of new particle types as well as respond to mouse or touch screen input for drawing. This allows me to bring the “hand of the artist” back into my computational works. This series was done in...
theory of humanistic futility – Feb 2009 Humanity is headed for a population correction. As members of a closed ecosystem (the earth) we are bound by the same natural vectors of population control as all living things are on this planet. When humanity tries to escape natural selection through technology or other means we are...
