Sky Goodman

United States of America

The work of Sky Goodman revolves around the use of emergent and obsolete technology, which allows them to create a unique and magical aesthetic. By merging tech from different eras, they are able to create a visual language that speaks to the alchemic nature of joining hardware and software. Sky's practice draws inspiration from landscape painters, Romantic poetry, and the wisdom and peace found in nature. However, it also has a speculative and science fiction undertone that contains allusions and easter eggs while also offering new worlds for the viewer to enter. This fusion of past and future, science and art, creates a kind of techno-romance that is both otherworldly and grounded in reality. Using video feedback and virtual reality, their work creates a living painting that invites the viewer to either step inside it or view it from a distance.


Sky's formal education is in Poetry and they hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. They are the author of three published poetry books, “Starfish” “Deep Dream” and “Universal Texture.” Sky's work has been auctioned at Sotheby’s, exhibited at The Tate Modern in London, and in various exhibitions locally, internationally, and online.


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Night Time Surprise on the Island

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“Night Time Surprise on the Island” is a place in another world but born from somewhere familiar. The trees are made of code and video feedback and the surrounding sea is made from analog glitches and distorted signals. This work was hand sculpted in virtual reality and rendered in Blender. Code made with Hydra and video feedback made with various hardware mixers is mapped onto the objects in this world. Glitch Art can be Romantic, especially video feedback which mimics so many organic forms found in nature. From using code and hardware in unexpected ways, beautiful patterns and colors emerge in a painterly fashion.


From the limitations of the system, comes infinite patterns.

To get lost in glitches is to get lost in nature and realize you are already home.

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

00:57

year

2023

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