Harvestworks

Improbable, Inevitable

Matthew Ortega

Improbable, Inevitable is a series that includes performance, installation, print, and digital painting. It reflects on the connection between technology and nature, and focuses on algorithms that give us access to the growth patterns of nature. The series aims to provide a space of thinking about computation and art, the differences in speed when comparing digital

Improbable, Inevitable is a series that includes performance, installation, print, and digital painting. It reflects on the connection between technology and nature, and focuses on algorithms that give us access to the growth patterns of nature. The series aims to provide a space of thinking about computation and art, the differences in speed when comparing digital to natural processes, the role of the artist in the age of machine-based artworks, and the relationship between speed and consciousness. 

About the artist(s)

Matthew Ortega

Matthew Ortega is an artist, designer and musician working at the intersection of art and technology. Beyond the use of traditional media such as cut and torn paper, he also worked with video and sound by using archival film and youtube clips to create fictional narratives. After a brief hiatus working as a digital designer, he acquired the skills to start creating custom software to further expand his artistic expression. Though he still works with ideas of refuse, decay, and distortion that come from remix culture, he also began to explore what technology can offer to one’s art practice.