Jason Salavon - Digital Artist
Jason Salavon is an artist using digital techniques to make some unique art.
Not strictly cyberart - his objects have a printed presence in the real world as well - but well versed in digital techniques and with a playful hackish quality that I find interesting.
By using a large number of images Salavon integrates and re-arranges pictures into something unique - where the sum of all the parts creates a new whole, a summation, which can illuminate and re-create the originals.
Every Playboy Centerfold: The Decades mean averages every Playboy centrefold from 1960 to 1999.
The four pictures generated like this hover like palimpests over blurred backgrounds, details hinting at hair, breasts, legs, but never forming into a whole - everything is left to the imagination.
When Salavon integrates all the Playboy centrefolds from 1988-1997 a more ghostly image is the result - the "Shroud of Playboy" - a ghostly presence that reminds the viewer of the Shroud of Turin - but with less detail.
Salavon also chops up film and video into frames and then re-cycles and mashes-up the results into new artworks - The Titanic for example - as well as recycling familair household objects into Modern Lifestyle Mandalas of extraordinary beauty.
I wish that some of the pictures on this site were a little larger though - just enough to make nice wallpaper without scaling up and pixellating
