Solarized Film Frame from “Snake Handlers” 2001
I can be reached at: wbrow02@gmail.com or +01 404 210-1879
William A. Brown
Creating Digital Images that are Robotically Rendered as Oil Paintings.
Van Gogh’s Self Portrait If He Had Worked in Photoshop and Used NASA Imagery. 2026
Quantum Interference Event 04. 2026
An Entirely New Approach to Fine Art Painting
These works were created in Photoshop and rendered as archival oil paintings using a new robotic technology developed at MIT. My strategy was to first test this new rendering process with montages made from European art (1400 to 1900). Next I attempted to create true randomly generated images by mixing over 400,000 images in a computer (no pun intended but the results were mixed at best). But I did develop a way to create metal montages using semi-random techniques as a by product of my randomizing experiments. My current strategy after five years of initial experimentation was to modify public domain NASA images. The latest of these works were made using a waveform montage technique informed by speculative theories about quantum extra-dimensional states. Don’t take the science seriously but I believe I’ve developed an entirely new way to create fine art paintings.
Speculations on Space as a Web of Multi-Dimensional Quantum Fields.
Isaac Newton’s Consciousness on the Event Horizon of a Black Hole. 2026
Randomly Mixing 544,000 Photographs That Inspired Metallic Paintings
Aleatory 125: Best Result from 544,000 Randomly Mixed Images in a Computer (Nudes in Hell Mixed with an Artist’s Palette). 2024 painting in Stock
MMM 09 2024 Derivative Strategy Discovered from Randomly Merging Hundreds of Thousands of Images in a Computer.
Public Domain Art Deconstructed & Reconstructed: 2019-23.
2D054 Men in Groups 2022
2D025 Hypothetical Bosch & Brueghel Collaboration 2021 Painting in Stock
Comic Relief Image
Video Works 1979-2019
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Still Photography 1979-2019
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Contact Information and C.V.
Four stills from Drop Test, an experimental hyper slow motion film made in 1979.
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Comparison of Digital Files with Robotically Created Paintings:
Montage Made from European Paintings of the Late Renaissance.
Montage Made from European Paintings of the Late Renaissance.
Career Summary:
I received a B.A. in Psychology from Emory University in 1969. In the early seventies I attended graduate school in psychology at Georgia State University. I soon realized behavioral psychology was was not a career goal found interesting. I took under graduate courses in art and eventually was awarded a graduate school fellowship to attend the University of Florida where I received an MFA in 1976. I then moved back to Atlanta, where I’ve lived for fifty plus years. After serving as a founder of what is now Atlanta’s Contemporary Art Center, I established the studio art program at Emory University where I taught for forty years. I also founded Atlanta Video, a private business specializing 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. I have a certificate in Spanish from the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain (2016). Before retiring from Emory University’s Department of Film and Media Studies I was primarily known as a video artist. My video work was shown has won awards at scores of international and national media events.
In retirement I’ve devoted my attention to the technology 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 consumer goods. The democratization of fine-art painting is upon us.
Details from Public Domain “Tych” Images 2024