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Jason Salavon

Saturday, October 25th, 2003

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Jason Salavon is an artist with an interest in pop culture, evolutionary biology, demographics and mathematics. He combines his interests into really fascinating pieces where he takes large samples of data (two examples, the distribution of weath in the U.S. for 1994, and each one-second frame from the movie Deep Throat), simplifies them (for example, by applying mathematical formulas, or taking the mean colors of complex photographs), then rearranges the newly culled data in meaningful ways.

The picture above, as he describes it, is the movie Apocalypse Now, “generated by algorithmically abstracting the film in time.”

Check out his work here.

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16 Responses to “Jason Salavon”

  1. #1 |  roach |  October 25th, 2003 at 3:35 pm

    Pretty neat. I often find I enjoy certain types of modern art more when I realize what the artist is trying to do or say. At the same time, sometiems they open their mouth and I hate their art more, when previously I merely found it hard to comprehend.

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  2. #2 |  Anonymous |  October 25th, 2003 at 5:11 pm

    Apocalypse Now? Looks like a swirl, not a piece of art. It’s not good art when you draw a cat and tell everyone its a dog, so how is this anything even close to that movie? I have no problems with modern art, but this is nothing but crap.

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  3. #3 |  James Bowman |  October 26th, 2003 at 12:40 am

    A unique alternate representation of a movie, but not art.

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  4. #4 |  Joe Sims |  October 26th, 2003 at 9:46 pm

    Actually, the ending makes more sense to me now…

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  5. #5 |  roger |  October 27th, 2003 at 12:30 pm

    If being a nerd were a crime, Jason Salavon would be on death row.

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