Binary Garden

The idea of Binary Garden comes from the observations of the organic, plant-like qualities of data visualizations and other computer-generated shapes. In a broader sense, the works represent my ongoing effort to understand the physics of everyday life, especially the aspect of information, data and communication.

For many scientists information (not in everyday but scientific sense) is one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, its “blood and fuel”*, a “unit of life”**.

It can be a potential bridge between physics, biology, computer science and mathematics, a “missing link that can join non-life and life in a unitary framework”***.

This concept is very complex and elusive, but in essence, it means that information, reduced to its smallest binary unit - a bit - is an elementary “particle” of the Universe.

It is through the interactions of correlated systems, on a micro and macro scale, that the continuous and unstoppable flow of matter and energy is happening. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. It’s a massive dynamic binary garden.

To produce the works I use experimental photographic techniques allowing me to combine the analogue darkroom materiality with the digital realm. My workflow often involves multiple steps of analogue and digital processing with a physical print created in the darkroom being most often the final outcome. Some works are though very straightforward captures created by simply exposing the photosensitive material (paper, film, glass plates) to an image displayed on the computer screen.

*James Gleick, “The information”

**James Gleick quoting Werner Loewestein, “The information”

*** Paul Davies, “The demon in the machine”