Colour Circle

Colour Circle
Digital Print on acrylic, 100cm x 100cm, 12mm thinkness

Colour Circle is generated by computer program, created by the artist Kentaro Yamada. The Program generates 1000 strips of colour in a circle. Each colour is randomly generated from atomopheric noise.

To generate random numbers, a radio is tuned into a frequency where there is no broadcast. The atmospheric noise picked up by the receiver is then fed into a Sun SPARC workstation through the microphone port. It is then sampled by a program as an 8 bit mono signal at a frequency of 8KHz.

One percent of the random noise or fuzz of an off-the-air station is the relic of the ancient past of our universe caused by Big Bang.

Exhibition
Gus Fisher Gallery, Asian at Wheel, Jan 2007