ADAM BASANTA, LANDSCAPE PAST FUTURE

Situated in an era of abundant access to digital images and imminent environmental collapse, Landscape Past Future proposes a re-thinking of landscape paintings through the lens of data-aggregation technologies. Using large institutional datasets filtered via metadata search terms and machine-learning techniques, new landscape paintings are created by aggregating historically significant works in digital mosaics. In these new, original works, the underlying pastoral associations are reconstituted within a digital realm of preservation: a virtual simulacrum in dialogue with our present witnessing of a disappearing natural world.