Aaron Varshay is a digital pioneer blending compositing and algorithm-based graphic manipulation.
The artist’s process is novel in its execution, but quite complicated in its own right. It boils down to inputting an image to an algorithmic program, adjusting the algorithms to transform the image, then painting and modifying the final output by hand.
The inherent lack of control is the most interesting element of this process for Varshay. Intent is often thrown out due to the erratic nature of these algorithms. To find success he practices a fluid mindset, ebbing and flowing with the results of the algorithms and treating the process as a collaboration with the computer.
Varshay believes this kind of collaboration with technology will be more common in the future and represents a profound leap in the way that artists can create.
