Dmitri Cherniak

Museum · 2025

Infinite Images

The Art of Algorithms

Toledo Museum of Art –

Twenty-five Ringers.
Toledo, Ohio

A wall of 25 framed Ringers in a dark blue gallery, with other exhibited works and a visitor nearby.
Ringers in the Chance & Control section of Infinite Images.Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art

The artwork

Ringers

Twenty-five Ringers were exhibited together in the Chance & Control section of Infinite Images. The five-by-five arrangement was curated to become increasingly complex from left to right and from top to bottom.

Created in 2021, Ringers explores how a string can wrap around a set of pegs. Changes in the pegs, wrapping paths, and colors produce distinct compositions within a shared set of rules.

The Chance & Control gallery, with the Ringers print grid on the right wall.
An installation view of the Chance & Control gallery.Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art
A straight-on view of 25 framed Ringers arranged in five rows and five columns.
Twenty-five Ringers, presented as a five-by-five grid.Photograph by Dmitri Cherniak
An angled view of the Ringers prints, showing their varied peg counts, wrapping paths, and colors.
A closer view of the exhibited Ringers.Photograph by Dmitri Cherniak
Explore the 25 exhibited Ringers View entries in the museum’s catalogue
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Visitor participation · Education

Ringers Reloaded

In the exhibition’s educational space, visitors explored the ideas behind Ringers through hands-on activities: wrapping strings around physical pegs and making their own drawings.

The photographs and film below document those activities and the Ringers made by visitors.

A visitor wraps string around large wall-mounted pegs beside a drawing table and a display of visitor drawings.
Ringers Reloaded: a space for visitors to experiment with strings, pegs, and drawing.Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art

Made by visitors

A collection of possibilities

A film bringing together the Ringers made in the educational section of the exhibition.

3 minutes 47 seconds · Silent

Ringers made by exhibition visitors.
Pencils and paper on a table in the Ringers Reloaded activity area, with drawings and peg boards on the walls.
The drawing table and hands-on activity area.Photograph by Dmitri Cherniak
Three white peg boards with red, yellow, and blue strings wrapped around circular pegs.
Visitors could explore wrapping paths using strings and physical pegs.Photograph by Dmitri Cherniak
Hand-drawn and colored Ringers hanging from clips along three rows of wire.
Ringers made by visitors in the educational section.Photograph by Dmitri Cherniak

About the exhibition

Art, rules, and possibility

Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms explored artists’ use of generative systems, connecting earlier rule-based practices with contemporary work made through code.

Organized by the Toledo Museum of Art.
Curated by Julia Kaganskiy.