In Chrysanthemum, artist Morgan Jenks aims to encapsulate the technological bubble we live in with nature. The text that is revealed throughout this piece are lyrics of an old song about the boundaries of technology and relationships. By moving the cursor around the screen, words are revealed as you pass over them. The piece brings you to reveal the work yourself, in your own way. Jenks wanted to create a form where the “3D images of wild forms reveal themselves to be clearly artificial as viewers interact.” He aims for the interaction of this piece to be somewhat of a lottery ticket feel that reveals itself “in something like a prayer bead cycle.”
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Check out Morgan Jenks’ interview.
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Morgan Jenks is an audiovisual artist working with game engines, DJ software, and web development. He holds an MFA in Visualization from Texas A&M University. His work dealing with technologically conditioned life, simultaneously estranged from nature and encapsulated within it, has been shown at the International Computer Music Conference, the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, and the Telfair Art Museum in Savannah, Georgia.
