Bit Operations
Bit Operations, 2024
generative video, audio
Edition of 404
4 tz
Link to mint the work
„Bit Operations“ is an visual exploration of computer fundamentals through bit-shifting operations. The visuals are generated by continuously shifting and combining binary patterns, resulting in evolving compositions of stark pixels and geometric shapes. The accompanying audio components are synthesized from this same modulating bit data.
At its core, the piece is driven by algorithms that perform bit-shifting – the simple acts of pushing binary values left or right within the computer's memory. By combining multiple shifting patterns togther in different ways, complex permutations of light and dark
visuals emerge. The audio reflects these same bit-level operations, with the rhythms and tones mapping directly to the shifts occurring in the data.
Through this formal process focused on bit-shifting, the piece lays bare the fundamental building blocks of how modern computers operate under the hood. It reduces computational logic to its most essential level – the manipulation of 1s and 0s through rudimentary shift operations. Yet from this simplicity, an infinite space of variations arises, both visually and aurally, highlighting the immense complexity potential within even the most basic digital operations.
Jonas Lund
(i >> 5) << (t / 5) * (t & 6) << (i | 2) & (i | 5) * (t << 3) + (i >> 5) & (i ^ 3) >> (i / 7) + (t – 7) >> x (i << 7) & (i + 5) – (i | 7) * (i + 7) << (t >> 1) ^ (i + 6) + (i << 5) << (i << 4
Jonas Lund
(i ^ 2) / (i << 4) & (i | 5) * (i << 7) – (i – 8) & (t & 6) ^ x (i * 4) + (i / 8) | (i << 2) * (i – 1) * x (Bit Operations), 2024
Aluminium, Laser cut
29 x 29 cm
1.666,00 EUR (incl. VAT)
Jonas Lund
(t * 3) << (i ^ 2) + (i – 5) / (i & 5) * (i << 7) * x (t – 3) | (i / 6) | (i & 6) ^ (i >> 4) >> (i + 1) / (t ^ 4) + (i + 2) >> x (Bit Operations), 2024
Aluminium, Laser cut
29 x 29 cm
1.666,00 EUR (incl. VAT)
About Jonas Lund
2024
Decoding the Black Box, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, DE
Close Reading, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
FUTURES, Anna Kultys Gallery, London, UK (s)
It’s not You, It’s Me, Nieuwe Dakota, Amsterdam
2023
The Poetics of the Immaterial from Certification to Blockchain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Collective Worldbuilding – Art in the Metaverse, HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), Basel, CHE
Notes from the Ether, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SGP
REBOOT, Pioneering Digital Art, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Web To Verse, Modal Gallery, Manchester, UK
Most Accidents Happen at Home, on wild.xyz, online (s)
In the Middle of Nowhere II, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London, UK (s)

In the Middle of Nowhere, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
Edenworld, le Bel Ordinaire – espace d’art contemporain, Billière, FR
The digital collection – part 1, Francisco Carolinum, OÖ Art, Linz
Behind the Screen, Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, NL

Of Their Time (7), A Look At Private Collections, FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post NFTISM, HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, online
2022
Continuous Shift, Kristianstaad Konsthall, Kristianstad, SE

Studio Visit: How to Make Art in the Age of Algorithmns, Francisco Carolinum, OÖ Art, Linz, AT (s)
Walk with Me, Distant Gallery, Online (s)

MVP, W1 Curates, London (s), GB

Unsafe At Any Speed, Morton Street Partners, New York, US
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Art and the Blockhain, Former SMBA, Eth Devcon, Amsterdam, NL

NfTNeTArT, from Net Art to Art NFT, a cooperation between panke.gallery and OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
PAINTINGS: DEPROGRAMMED OBSOLESCENCE, Musée de l'Hospice Saint Roch, Issoudun, FR


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