About
Jacob Gold has been making generative art since 2021. He lives in Somerville, MA.
Artist Statement
I use generative systems to explore questions about the relationship between people and images. What separates images which are technically different from those which feel distinct but still related? What human element can be experienced from an artwork created by a set of rules? What makes an image surprising? To answer these questions I design generative systems which output the broadest range of possibilities while still remaining cohesive. The algorithms I use draw from my previous academic research on emergent behavior in the natural world, where a collection of interacting components come together to do something more complex than any individual component is capable of, like molecules forming a cell, or cells forming an animal.