Don Hanson

Space Debris

2023

Technological progress creates waste, and the vast majority of artifacts become debris within the span of a human lifetime. Obsolete and discarded technology become objects of curiosity found in thrift stores, flea markets and junk shops. On the timescale of a spacefaring civilization imagine the junk we'll find in orbit and free floating in space. Imagine finding a field of debris that didn't even come from the work of humans.

The models were generated in 2023 using custom algorithms to design the geometries and textures in Blender. The scripts start with a basic primitive shape and use subdivision, extrusion and translation to produce complex geometries. The image materials of the models were created and assigned programmatically using my 2D generative visual synthesizer, Donware. Each model has a vibe, which can be stable, grounded, shattered, tactical, esoteric, dark, euphoric, prominent or hypercomplex.

https://spacedebris.co

Don Hanson

Don Hanson is a designer, electronic musician and Internet artist building experimental websites, tools and electronic artifacts connected to the world wide web. He is the founder of virtual art space New Art City.

Current & Upcoming

2024
Donware Device 01 Wall Mounted Generative Artwork
2023
Space Debris 120 generative 3D models
2021-Ongoing
Generative Series (9 Works) Browser based generative art
2021
Torrentialism Paintings (12 Works) Oil paintings on canvas
2020-Ongoing
New Art City Virtual art gallery showing 4,000+ artists
2020
TAKASHI & KIYOKO WebGL music video for EMINA
2020
Frequency Piece Video synth collage
2019-Ongoing
Don's Toplist Chronological list of favorite albums
2019-Ongoing
Found You Online New media art database
2019
Mainstream Contrarian WebGL music video for MANGANGS
2019
Tellurics: Leyline Audiovisual performance
2019
Remember Me Net art
2018-Ongoing
Code Keyframes Open source tool for browser-based music videos
2018
Pixel Synth Lofi video synthesizer
2018
Wifi Synth Wifi network sound sculpture
2018
More Plants Chrome extension that adds plants
2018
Permanent Redirect Net art about artificial scarcity
2018
brokenscreen.online Procedurally generated graphics as net art
2018
Binary Chat Chat room for computers
2018
WebSplicer Splice two websites together
2018
3D Cursor Cursor object
2018
Thinking of Space Video art aqua series #2
2017
Favicron Favicon patterns grouped by year
2017
Shybot Shy robot tracking interface
2017
Day & Night Video art aqua series #1
2017
Composition Idea Generator Descriptions of artworks that do not exist
2016
Artifax Gif glitch art ffmpeg experiment
2016
Cities n Skies Gif art chromakey experiment
2016
CSS Scrambler Scramble any website
2016
Surph Gif art video compression on water
2016
Night City Cyberpunk generative video installation
2016
Onion Routing AR Walking Tor Geolocated augmented reality simulation of TOR
2015
Übungsraum Audiovisual generative installation
2013-2018
.gifSlap VJ software for people who love gifs
2010-2020
Gridwalk Label Electronic Music & Audiovisual Label