Art Practice
Artistic Practice & Philosophy
Focused on the meditative act of creation, Seamus merges traditional print and illustrative techniques with cutting-edge computational design. His Ink Artwork series, produced using an axis printer and custom algorithms, explores how iterative patterns, calculated errors, and machine-driven marks evoke the beauty of human imperfection and organic growth.
Meditation and imperfection:
Using digital and robotic tools that embrace computational flaws to spark new visual rhythms.
Memory and identity:
Reworking personal archives into abstract narratives that invite communal introspection.
Resourceful making:
Sourcing and repurposing local materials, merging low-tech and high-tech methods in resourceful synergy.
Methodology
Noll's practice is grounded in a hybrid methodology that combines analog mark-making with generative algorithmic structures. His Ink Artwork series utilizes a custom-built axis printer and controlled scripting environments to test how variation, error, and repetition produce emergent forms. These works examine the aesthetics of imperfection, challenging traditional binaries of the digital and the organic.
His Amalgamated America represents an archival and reconstructive process. Drawing from personal family photographs, Noll employs a strategy akin to visual stratigraphy, a layering, fragmenting, and reassembling these artifacts to simulate cognitive memory mapping. The work aligns with principles of restoration ecology and data recombination, focusing on the psychological impacts of generational inheritance, cultural trauma, and spatial dislocation.
Thematic Framework
Iterative Systems: Exploration of repetition, feedback loops, and mechanical unpredictability as visual logic.
Computational Imperfection: Inquiry into how machine "errors" can produce novel aesthetic reflection of data.
Psychoarchival Assemblage: Reconstruction of personal and collective memory through non-linear image sequences.
Material Ecology: Use of local, recycled, or biologically relevant materials to minimize waste and embed ecological awareness.
Statement of Intent
“My work treats each process as a feedback system, one that reflects the tension between control and entropy. I am less concerned with perfect outcomes than with observing the behaviors of tools, systems, and memories under pressure. Each project is an experiment in visual cognition and emotional cartography."
