Pattomatica

01/06/2026

LATENT ARCHITECTURE
This project started with a photograph of a small, rusted metal cage which provided the fodder for a kaleidoscopic/mandala treatment ending in a very elaborate abstract design. Using a local version of Stable Diffusion via ComfyUI, I converted the structure of what was decoration into a built environment. This slow morph from abstraction to realism proceeds with variations within the structural constraints of the original design. Typically abstraction is more likely to be derived from realism than the other way around. The soundtrack is slow-moving textural variations on a single chord.

21/05/2026

BRAIN CORAL DEMENTIA - my latest easy listening music video TouchDesigner

When Brain Coral loses its mind the oceans get a little dumber. An exercise in terrain generation, erosion and flooding. A followup to I Am An Archipelago ht...

30/04/2026

ARCHIPELAGO A-GO-GO > new music inspired by the 'easy listening' music of Les Baxter who is known for creating the genre of Exotica in the 50s. - most noteably with the Ritual Of The Savage album. Intended as a soundtrack for an upcoming 3 min animation it doubled in length and fattened to over 100 tracks over the course of a month. Check it out on Bandcamp and be sure to click the Follow button.

track by pattomatica

30/04/2026

Released Gongdwana audio piece back in February. A mostly unstructured ambient exercise in idiophone sounds against softer synth sounds.

track by pattomatica

03/02/2026

Turing Toon No.1 Selected for screening at MONSTRA Festival in Lisbon on March 18-19th and in a VISUAL MUSIC programme at Convent de Sant Agusti in Barcelona on January 30th.

20/01/2026 First highlights of MONSTRA 2026 MONSTRA 2026 begins on March 12 with a film concert of ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and films from Latvia, whose animation is among the most distincti... Read More

19/11/2025

My animation Turing Toon No.1 has been selected to participate in the World Festival for Abstract Art in Motion (Punto y Raya Festival 2025).
https://www.puntoyrayafestival.com
https://youtu.be/MmqO9pJpvRg
If you happen to find yourself at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria between 3rd-7th December get yourself some pukanki (popcorn) and check it out!

An animation based on Turing Patterns. Alan Turing developed this concept in 1952 to describe how patterns in nature, such as zebra stripes, leopard spots an...

30/08/2025

ANT APPARTMENTS - My vinyl wrapped utility box artwork for the City of Melville now installed at Alison Harris Park in Kardinya. Includes alfresco dining areas, rooftop pool (when the sprinklers are on), nearby playground with discarded sugar and maternity ward. Perfect accomodation for a new queen.

16/06/2025

ALIENS JUST WANNA FLOCK
A Touchdesigner animation documenting the benign intentions of aliens on holiday.

Animation created using Touchdesigner

20/03/2025

A meditative 'SlowTV' animation using AI to imperceptibly morph (in latent space) between, abstracted, painterly versions of a single photo of Karri forest regrowth.
A locally installed desktop version of ComfyUi was used for the AI processing.

If you want to avoid ads - view on my website https://www.pattomatica.art/Pattomatica/Animations/i-Jt2Nk7n/A

A meditative 'SlowTV' animation using AI to imperceptibly morph (in latent space) between painterly, abstracted images of Karri forest regrowth in the Warr...

06/03/2025

Take a couple of my previous kaleidoscopic images, feed them through Stable Diffusion using a ComfyUI workflow that includes a text prompt then 're-kaleidoscope' the output to create the central element and you get this.