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Then, as I started doing installation work in the late 1970s and '80s, I started realizing that I could make effectively endless pieces of music and pieces of visual material by exploring the possibility of combinations and permutations. That was really the best way of explaining it. So you sort of had a diagram, or really you got a "still" from the piece. Theoretically, the processes were infinite but unfortunately, recordings aren't of infinite length. What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.
Discreet Music was like that and Music for Airports. I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. That was one thing I found very interesting, because once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on and which would play for a while and finish. He has also exhibited work at the Biennales of Sydney (1982), Venice (1986), Adelaide (1988), Milan (1990) and Lyon (2005).Brian Eno: Well, part of it is that it's an extremely good value (laughter) because it was possible to make a lot of work from a very small amount of original material. Since his first installation at the Kitchen Centre for the Performing Arts in New York in 1979 he has created installations at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston The New Museum, New York The Art Gallery, Toronto Vancouver Art Gallery Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ICA, London Concord Gallery, New York Galleria del Cavallino, Venice Festival of Vienna La Foret Museum, Tokyo Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Santa Monica Museum Seed Gallery, Tokyo Zwirner Gallerie, Cologne Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Gallerie VVK, Hanover Galerie Lavalin, Montreal Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen Kiasma Museum of Art, Helsinki Markthalle, Hamburg White Cube Gallery, London Marble Palace, St Petersburg Hayward Gallery, London San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Millions of Eno originals will be created and then disappear only to be replaced by millions more.Įno's artwork has been shown at scores of galleries, arts festivals and biennales across the globe.
But it also raises questions about the concept of the "original" in art that Walter Benjamin could not have imagined when he wrote The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction. This brings the concept of Eno's generative light installations from the controlled space of the gallery into the viewer's home and creates what Eno describes as "visual music" on what would otherwise be a dead space in the room. The prevalence of powerful home computers means that it is now possible to mass-produce and distribute this art. The result is that having created the seed of the work it becomes unpredictable even to the artist himself - and every viewer also has a unique experience of the painting.
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The software processes the music that accompanies the paintings in a similar way so the selection of elements and their duration in the piece are arbitrarily chosen, forming a virtually infinite number of variations. The painting is generated from hand-made slides that are randomly combined by the computer using specially developed software. The 77 Million Paintings software disc uses the screen of your computer or television to create a constantly evolving painting. His visual work has been exhibited in galleries across the globe - see partial list below - and installations of 77 Million will be going to the Biennales of both Venice and Milan this year.
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The revised edition includes a larger archive of images and musical tracks from which the final output can be sampled.Īlthough he is perhaps more famous for his musical output, Eno has had a long career as a visual artist and has worked with generative light compositions in the same way that he has worked with generative music on classic albums such as Music For Airports (1978) and Neroli (1993).
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On December 4, 2007, Brian Eno released the second, revised edition of 77 Million Paintings (All Saints/Hannibal/Ryko), which sees the continued evolution of Eno's exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic possibilities of "generative software." This groundbreaking release features: Exclusive interview DVD, limited-edition deluxe numbered packaging that includes a 52-page hard-bound book with an extensive essay by Eno covering his career as a visual artist, fully illustrated with previously unseen images and a generative software disc playable on Mac or PC. Groundbreaking Limited Edition DVD/Art Software Package Turn on javascript to use the drop-down menus.ħ7 MILLION PAINTINGS BY BRIAN ENO - SECOND, REVISED EDITION