Solarized Film Frame from “Snake Handlers” 2001
New Robotic Technology Enables Digital Oil Paintings
Art Lesson for Aliens to be Launched as a Deep Space Probe 2025
We’re on the cusp of a new era in fine-art painting. Recently developed robotic painting devices will enable Photoshop software to be used as a painting tool. This will completely disrupt the way paintings are made and distributed.
My work in this area is not about establishing a style as much as it is about exploring the multiple possibilities of digital painting designs that will work as robotically generated paintings.
William A. Brown 2023
Random Metal Mix 01 2024
These high definition works are best viewed on a forty inch screen. Alternately zoom in to fill the frame with each image.
Six minute informational video about my work. Music generously provided by Bruce Hampton
Public Domain Art Deconstructed & Reconstructed:
New Work: 2024-25
Speculations on Art in a Holographic Multi-Verse 2025
Nudes Falling onto the Surface of a Black Hole Where Our Consciousnesses Hide. 2025
Generating Abstract Art from European Public Domain Art 2024
Using a Computer to Randomly Mix 544,000 Photographs and Public Domain Art Works:
Applying Randomizing Strategies to Metal Materials 2024
Random Metal #09 2024
Video Works 1979-2019
Still Photography 1979-2019
Contact Information and C.V.
Four stills from Drop Test, an experimental hyper slow motion film made in 1979.
Comparison of Digital Files with Oil on Board Robotically Created Paintings:
Career Summary:
I left graduate school in psychology to become a photographer in the 1970s. I received a MFA from the University of Florida in 1972. I went on to become a founder of the Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta and the studio program at Emory University where I taught for over 40 years. I also owned Atlanta Video, a video production company that specialized in arts and educational programming. My Emmy Award winning documentary about the Maya Indians, “Apocalypse Then”, aired in primetime on the A&E Network. I also produced classical music videos and artist profile videos for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. I have a certificate in Spanish from the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.
Before retiring from the Emory University Film & Media Studies Department I was primarily known as a video artist. I Have shown work and won awards at scores of international and national media events. My art videos were slow motion studies of people in crowds on the street, at sporting events, watching parades, or running from bulls in Spain.
In retirement I’ve become an early adapter of the technology that I believe will change the way paintings are created. The efficiency and speed of computers and evolved robotic painting devices will allow the designers of the new painting to create works at a scale and precision associated with the manufacture of any complex mass consumer item. The democratization of fine art painting is upon us and I personally like the idea that paintings by the next avant-garde will be designed in software and rendered by a robot. The era of the 90 million dollar contemporary painting will thankfully end.
Details from Public Domain “Tych” Images 2024
