Publications/Exhibitions
MONOCHROME / Series / Incident.net / 2007-08
Monochrome Generator is part of the MONOCHROME Series at Incident.net

Hair particle drawing project (Hairy Bush) is at Artworks! Gallery A New Perspective on Politics New Bedford MA : June 9th- July 19.

Big Hairy Bush II and Blue Recursive are at the 500x Annual Open Show: Something Made Easy Dallas TX : May 2008

NIA and RTCAG on Network Research blog Feb. 2008

Systemic Sky accepted into 500x Expo 2008 Juried by Artist/Curator Terri Thornton Jan. 2008

Blue Recursive on math-art.com Jan. 2008

Systemic Sky accepted into Victory Media Juried Competiton Nov. 2007

Blue Recursive on nanohedron.com Nov. 2007

Big Hairy Bush II was accepted into the Art of Digital Show, in San Diego, CA. juried by Mr. Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Oct. 6 to Nov. 11, 2007 at the Lyceum Theatre Gallery, in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter.

Big Hairy Bush was accepted into the Siggraph 2007 Travelling Art Show, Chair Lina Yamaguchi Stanford University

Big Hairy Bush was accepted into the Sigraph 2007 Art Gallery August 5-9th in San Diego CA. Chairs Vibeke Sorensen,University at Buffalo and Lina Yamaguchi, Stanford University. Siggraph 2007 Jurors

Junior/Senior Prom: 500X Gallery's 26th Annual Open Invitational

Systemic Abstractors vs. the Pubic Realists in ARS Combinatoria Juried Show by Professor Artur
Matuck, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Forum of Scholars and Artists UCF Expo Center Orlando Florida March 1-31,2007

Systemic Abstractors vs. the Pubic Realists in CULTURETV Feb.2007

Four WC68-69 Series prints accepted to 500x Expo 2007 Juried by Dr. Francis Colpitt Jan. 2007

Generative Flowers II accepted into Victory Media Juried Competiton Jan. 2007

Generative Flowers II in MocoLoco.com and CULTURETV! Oct. 2006

Apparition of Norma Jean (7 min HD Video) signed to Plastic TV (Paris, France), June 2006, available on French VOD

25th annual 500x Open Show

Perpetual Art Machine as a participating artist in Scope New York Plus - Cinemascope Featured Projects Dates: 10th -13th March 2006

MocoLoco.com, a modern contemporary design magazine wrote an article here, Jan. 17 2006.

The Generator Blog RTCAG, Postmodern Modernist Generators, and Space Filling Curve Generator 2005,2006

Real Time Contextual Art Generator published Aug. 2005 at software art portal www.runme.org

Antwerp art and noise rag Rotkop Magazine 2004 (ROTKOP issue #8) now freaksendfuture.com

Artist Statement
I write software to make art.

Generative Process
Relyea's tools are script editing windows and compilers. Relyea's schooling in traditional printmaking (under Lawrence Scholder) left him with a strong consideration for the process of image creation. Relyea loosely defines new digital processes by creating works manually first, he then transforms the processes into programming routines with parameters. The parameters can be dynamic data from the network, mathematical algorithms or number generators. The routines are repeated with parameter variations to generate designs of similar aesthetic quality.

Current Projects:
See also main Art Projects page
Space Filling Curve Art Generator
Hair Particle Drawing Program
Several ongoing generative video projects
The Reductionizer
Systemic Abstractors vs Realistic Drawing Objects
Postmodern Modernist Generators
Real Time Contextual Art Generator v1.1 update (lots of new features!)
Spam poetry art generator
Artificial Artist --Design AI
An interactive scraped relational database mapping project using flickr, tagging and disparate databases.

Background
Don Relyea graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts in 1992 where he was a print making major and a merit scholarship student.

Upon graduation he dove headlong into the multimedia software industry producing video and interactive CD content for publishers and clients. In the multimedia industry he developed a love for programming graphics on computers and now produces art in several media both traditional and digital.

Relyea's experience in music has influenced his art signifigantly. He stumbled into generative art by accident while programming visuals for several of the bands/electronic music projects he contributed to during the 90's. Industrial and avant garde electronic projects, Jump Rope Girls, Ropelab, evilcomputergenius, and 7 Vials of the Apocalypse were marked by stacks of old tvs and video projection displaying the most recent video works by Relyea. Jump Rope Girls and Ropelab were nominated and won best avant garde and industrial electronic acts several times in the late 90's and 2000 by local newspaper critics(Dallas Observer, and Fort Worth Weekly). Relyea was also part of the AI Collective and a founder of Sub-Tronic Theatre a live electronic music and media showcase.

Evilcomputergenius

Evilcomputergenius

Ropelab

Ropelab

Relyea was involved in F8 which won an ARS Electronica Honorable Mention in 2001. He was also the featured digital artist on www.drmartens.com for Spring of 1998 nominated by Pyro Design.

Relyea's themes and imagery are influenced by western pop culture, modernism, Italian futurism, life experience, news networks, google.com, tv, scan lines, op art, Albers color theory, science, pure math, pseudo-science, superstition, insects, plants and natural forms. His colors are heavily influenced by Chicago artist Ed Paschke. Relyea had the opportunity to meet Mr. Paschke in the late 80's while he was here for an exhibition.

Over the years Relyea has developed and interest in algorithmic composition. Rather than creating algorithms as art in their own right, he strives to write algorithms that simulate his own creative process. He breaks down the process of designing, enlarging, and rendering an image on paper or canvas and tries to translate that to the digital realm.

He also has a variety of on going projects that revolve around the concept of dynamic art and contextual art. Computer based art that changes based on time and dynamic information.