Dmitri Cherniak

Dmitri Cherniak

Works

Ringers #940Ringers #861Ringers #65Ringers #879Ringers #608Ringers #934Ringers #788Ringers #761Ringers #886Ringers #68Ringers #116Ringers #970Ringers #752Ringers #892Ringers #195Ringers #330

Ringers

2021 · 1,000 unique works

A string, a set of pegs, and a thousand ways to bring them together.

The Eternal Pump #27The Eternal Pump #39The Eternal Pump #8The Eternal Pump #0The Eternal Pump #6The Eternal Pump #16The Eternal Pump #22The Eternal Pump #29The Eternal Pump #37

The Eternal Pump

2021 · 50 unique works

Generative forms in motion, made with JavaScript and GLSL.

The Wrapture #1The Wrapture #14The Wrapture #35The Wrapture #39The Wrapture #41The Wrapture #44The Wrapture #34The Wrapture #48The Wrapture #32

The Wrapture

2021 · 50 unique works

A generative edition shaped by a collective decision.

Black and white striped forms with vivid red interiors on a pale ground.

gen2GAN

2020–2023 · With Helena Sarin

A collaboration between hand-coded generative systems and neural networks.

January 1, 2022.January 4, 2022.January 7, 2022.January 10, 2022.January 13, 2022.January 16, 2022.January 19, 2022.January 22, 2022.January 25, 2022.

Dead Ringers

2022 · 31 works · January 2022

Daily generative works sent to random Ethereum addresses.

Soft, grainy red, blue, yellow, and green translucent forms overlap on a pale background.

Transparent Grit

2021 · Edition of 75 + AP

Orbiting translucent forms that shift with the scale of the viewing window.

Polygon Etcetera #18Polygon Etcetera #2Polygon Etcetera #6Polygon Etcetera #4

Polygon Etcetera

2025 · Twenty generative compositions

A grid of cubes becomes a field of fractured planes, color, and line.

Floor Ringer, a freestanding metal sculpture of looping dark bands and cylindrical pegs on a steel base.

Floor Ringer

2024 · Sculpture

Ringers in three dimensions, as a freestanding sculpture in stainless steel, patina, and machined aluminum.

A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain #1A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain #2A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain #3A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain #4

A slight lack of symmetry can cause so much pain

2020 · Four algorithmic compositions

Four variations on the tension between a continuous line and the points that guide it.

Nested translucent bowls in pink, blue, and white around a small glowing yellow sphere.

A breath of fresh pearls

2020 · A study on concentric bowls

An output from a study on concentric bowls, coded in JavaScript and GLSL shaders.

Black contour lines winding across a pale yellow ground around circles of blue, red, purple, yellow, teal and green. Just above the center, two ringed shapes over a pointed line and a curving line read as a small face.

Self Portrait #1

2020 · A face in the contour lines

The result of emergence, and of how we see ourselves in our art.

Overlapping rounded forms with long, round-ended arms in charcoal, grey-green, and pale mint, with a tall yellow bar at the left and a small ring near the center, on a light grey ground.

Turbulent Figures

2019 · Steps I–VII

String and peg forms stacked in layers, each sampling half as many pegs as the last.

Nine black, white, and yellow Ringers variations arranged in a three-by-three grid on paper.

Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations

2023 · Avant Arte · LACMA

A parameter sweep of Ringers #962, translated into embossed screenprints.

Ironic Dessert, 2023.

Ironic Dessert

2023 · TASCHEN Art Edition

An algorithmic composition of colored blocks, presented as an NFT and a signed print with On NFTs.

FAKEAUTOPEPE, 2022.

FAKEAUTOPEPE

2022 · Fake Rares · Series 8, Card 47

An animated card in the Fake Rares collection, issued in an edition of 300.

Light Years #87Light Years #2Light Years #36Light Years #93Light Years #35Light Years #21Light Years #69Light Years #9Light Years #40

Light Years

2022 · Generative photography

One hundred works tracing a path from code to film negative to silver gelatin print, in dialogue with László Moholy-Nagy.

Striped geometric shapes and primary colors across three descending platforms.

It’s such a shame I fixed this bug

2021 · A fortunate error

A coloring error becomes the defining feature of a generative composition.

An intricate field of curving black contours and red, yellow, blue, and green shapes.

The difference between the subtleties and the subtle ties

2022 · Boundaries under pressure

A spring-based simulation uses deforming boundaries and polygon offsets to evoke cell division.