The software – developed by Jake Dowie – sources four of these images at a time, combining and overlapping them in a novel, transitory pattern. To begin with, there was a series of original images, 296 of them, mostly painted by Eno on to glass slides. 77 Million Paintings is a slight misnomer as none of the images in the sequence is a painting per se. It is an example of generative art: that is, Eno set up the framework and, no longer in control, he let it loose. Since its launch, 77 Million Paintings has had numerous screenings (including on to the walls of Sydney Opera House), no two of them identical thanks to the randomised variations produced by the software. 77 Million Paintings is a continuously changing sound and image digital artwork Brian Eno originally made for an exhibition in Tokyo in 2006 (an enhanced edition followed in 2008) in a two-disc combination: one containing the software that generates the succession of sound and images, the other a DVD of interviews with Eno.
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