Creation Myth - 1985
VIDEO INSTALLATION — DURATION: 2:00
Multichannel video installation commissioned by Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell for the opening of the Palladium, a large-scale, art themed, New York nightclub.
The piece describes the birth of a new environment, starting with fire, then water, air, plants and animals. All were created using some of the earliest generative art software, designed specifically to generate forms and movements drawn from our natural world. The unique fractal and particle system software allowed the artist to portray complex natural elements and natural motion, even evolutionary processes, in ways not seen before.
Once the new world is created, the work ends with a tree dancing in a disco. The tree's dance movements are also expressed through generative software.
Creation Myth was designed specifically for exhibition on Palladium's 50 monitor moving video display system, with the moving display systems choreographed in connection to the video's movements.
Other commissioned artists included: Francesco Clemente, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Anderson and Arata Isozaki.
Music by: Carter Burwell.
COMMISSIONED BY IAN SCHRAGER AND STEVE RUBELL.