Alex Grant

Raised in Hackham West by puppeteers, Alex put himself through engineering school as a graphician for educational computer games on the Commodore Amiga. As an academic, inventor and entrepreneur, he played around with mathematical theories of wireless data transmission, connected cars and stuff in space. Meanwhile, art increasingly demanded attention, and he is currently seeing where that leads. Alex is studying at Adelaide Central School of Art.

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Performance at ACSA May 2024

fresh

ACSA Student Exhibition March 2024

Letting go but holding on, the colours don't matter, the edges matter, pigment suspended in polymerised oil, applied to canvas, creating topologies, respecting the surface, until there is nothing left. On a long enough timescale, everything is ephemeral.

Big Bend

oil on canvas
102 x 152

Nothing (This Fleeting Moment)

overpainted homework, eucalyptus twig, light
71 x 102 cm

synthmind

For school, we had to make a mind map. I used ChatGPT to help me build a mindmap application (full transcript here), and then got it to make a mindmap that could be loaded by the application. The code is hosted on github here.

chaos

ACSA Student Exhibition
Opening Party Tuesday 13 February

I will be exhibiting my diptych "Nothing". Make sure you read the fine print.

Nothing I (Sensitivity to Initial Conditions)
oil on board

Nothing II (Strange Attraction)
oil on canvas

In this diptych, I summon the multifaceted essence of chaos, transcending mere disorder, to embody computational unpredictability.

Sensitivity to Initial Conditions embodies chaos theory's subtleties – where minor variations in a deterministic system reveal deep, underlying complexities.

Strange Attraction reflects vernacular chaos – unstructured, dark, and enigmatic, evoking the magnetic pull of the primordial abyss from ancient mythologies.

Chaos is an emergent property of dynamical systems acting iteratively on complex number systems. Challenging conventional art market dynamics, Sensitivity to Initial Conditions will be offered at a positive price, reflecting the normative artist’s quest for recognition and value. Conversely, Strange Attraction, embodying unbridled chaos, will be presented at a negative price.

no more fucks to give

disempowering profanity through repetition

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Fuck I
Sumi ink on paper
30x42cm

Fucking Bullshit
Sumi ink on cold press paper
56x76cm

Fucking disoriented (black)
Screen print on card
50x65cm

Fucking disoriented (red)
Screen print on card
51x64cm

outsider

Solo Exhibition 2023

Extreme environments require careful planning and specialised support systems, just to exist. The thread that connects us together is tangible. On reflection, the same is true at home, but we mostly don't notice.

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Sea to Summit (Antarctica)
watercolour on Arches
76x56cm

Mt Abel Approach (New Zealand)
watercolour on Arches
76x56cm

Schreckhorn (Switzerland)
oil on canvas
75x111cm

anthropomorpheus

Artificial intelligence will either be the best thing, or the worst thing to happen to humanity. Anthropomorpheus is my response to a series of long-form interviews held with ChatGPT during August 2023.

Conversations with ChatGPT