The Waves

Brendan Dawes is a UK based artist using generative processes involving data, machine learning and algorithms, to create interactive installations, electronic objects, online experiences, data visualisations, motion graphics and imagery for screen and print. Time and space are consistent themes within his work. A Lumen Prize Alumni, his work has featured in many exhibitions across the world including Big Bang Data in thirteen cities, three MoMA shows in New York together with his Cinema Redux work becoming part of the MoMA permanent collection in 2008. His recent Art of Cybersecurity work is featured in Art Futura 2020.

The Waves is a collection of works inspired by Virginia Woolf's classic 1931 novel, The Waves. I've read this book many times, yet on each repeated reading it leaves me altered in some way. I see the world with new eyes, appreciating ever more the small moments in life, especially the beauty that can be found in the quiet, still moments, or the often subtle interactions between people, things and the world around them. The Wave itself is created using mathematics inspired by the Lissajous apparatus created in the 19th Century by Jules Antoine Lissajous to visualise harmonics.