THE ARTIST
Clement Valla is a New York based artist whose work considers how humans and computers are increasingly entangled in making, seeing and reading pictures.
He has had recent solo exhibitions at PC Galleries in Providence, XPO Gallery in Paris and Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn. His work has also been exhibited at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Breda, Netherlands; Bitforms Gallery, New York; Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France; Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; KIM Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia; Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh; and The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis.
His work has been cited in The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, El Pais, Huffington Post, Rhizome, Domus, Wired, The Brooklyn Rail, Liberation, and on BBC television. Valla received a BA in Architecture from Columbia University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital+Media. He is currently an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
THE WORK
pointcloud.garden is a collection of 3D scanned gardens, each consist of large sets of data points measured from gardens in a 3D scanning process. Each data point consists of spatial [XYZ] and color [RGB] information. The resulting data set is a discontinuous translation of a surface into discrete data points, filled with gaps and missing information. This compressed translation emphasizes certain ways in which humans experience a garden; as an aggregation of leaves, petals, stalks and stems, a set of discontinuous points forming an overall texture.
Please visit the project at www.pointcloud.garden.