William A. Brown

Monkeys & Typewriters: Images Generated by Digitally Mixing 544,000 Photographs

The works on this page were created by randomly mixing hundreds of thousands of photographs and public domain art works in a computer. The results are true aleatory works, a technique suggested by John Cage in the 1950s. Digital randomizing as a painting strategy is now possible as the painting workflow becomes digitized. This strategy, however, is truly mining low grade ore. There were perhaps a dozen interesting images after four years of diligent digital randomizing.

Neon Aleatory Works 2024

All of these works are sold as NFTs with the buyer having the right to create oil paintings, prints, etc. Only one NFT is sold for each image.