Organic Odds
Curated generative collaboration with LORDOF. Organic Odds is a set of 20 selected outputs, originating as manipulated physical painting scans and transformed through a generative algorithm.
Organic Odds consists of various manipulated physical painting scans, processed through an algorithm, and refined to 20 selected works (6500 x 4560px) that each connected with both artists.
A range of Archie’s paintings were selected from hundreds of scanned studies over the past few years, swinging in aesthetic and the emotional context in which they were created. The disorderly and chaotic collection of scans is shared with random yet unified aesthetics of the algorithm created by LORDOF.
The generative algorithm uses a 4-pass fragment shader with both linear and non-linear transformation layers. The scan is successively passed through each layer and leaves residuals of each transformation onto the next frame with different blending ratios. Each output is post-processed with one final shader adjustment layer and saved at 6500 x 4560 pixels.
Both artists collaborated over months of discussions to align and make selections that spoke to both of them.
Down from more than 2000+ outputs evaluated, the final 20 outputs of the series ultimately reflect both artists’ interests in themes of peace amongst the chaos, the human psyche, and the alluring elements of chance, nature, and memory.