Claudio Castillo

"In my work, the worlds of painting, animation, and computer programming conspire together in a subtly subversive take on software art. The watercolor image has traditionally existed as a unique original, along with the possibilities for its reproduction. Software art has often focused on generating complex images that mirror the endless variables made possible by computer coding".
Claudio Castillo

                    
 

In Reactive Art, the weather, news and stock markets drive the compositions in real time by receiving feeds through the Internet. Mr. Castillo's work creates itself as a reaction to real world, live data. The artist has created all the variables and lets the individual feeds create the appropriate imagery. For example, in the case of the weather piece (GTMO Landscape), multiple animated variables of heat, wind, humidity, and cloud cover, precipitation and time of day have been created. When the artwork receives weather information for any given city, it composes the image that most closely fits the incoming data.