Timeframes brings together Nic Hamilton’s digital art practice and the 19th-century landscapes of John Glover.
The project explores time, permanence and place, biome and artifact; portals unfolding through AI processes across across multiple mediums recontextualizing the Australian sublime.
Timeframes brings together Nic Hamilton’s digital art practice and the 19th-century landscapes of John Glover.
The project explores time, permanence and place, biome and artifact; portals unfolding through AI processes across across multiple mediums recontextualizing the Australian sublime.
Timeframes brings together Nic Hamilton’s digital art practice and the 19th-century landscapes of John Glover.
The project explores time, permanence and place, biome and artifact; portals unfolding through AI processes across across multiple mediums recontextualizing the Australian sublime.
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Timeframes
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Timeframes
Timeframes merges my digital art with 19th-century Tasmanian landscapes, reinterpreted through digital and AI processes. Inspired by John Glover’s 19th Century paintings, the series uses AI trained on specific Tasmanian biomes to expand Glover’s depictions, blending Romanticism with contemporary technology.
Frame-like objects—rusted car doors, old TVs, malfunctioning tablets—act as symbols form tactile canvases for erosion, discovery, and preservation, highlighting existing in the tension between what we conserve and discard.
Timeframes is also about my personal relationship with a place I grew up in, surrounded by this landscape and its species, topographies and skies. The frames are found objects and digital portals to a fuzzy record (a memory) of the place, generated by my recollection, through a evolving relationship with technology (no, not the intersection of you know what ) and the global image data bank.
Timeframes Geo
Timeframes Geo
Timeframes Geo
Timeframes Geo is a sub-family within the main Timeframes collection. It features time-lapse photography shot at 15 locations in North East Tasmania using a Canon 5D on a motion rig.
These images are transformed into Timeframes artworks, which incorporate geolocated metadata from shooting locations and times. The footage is processed through a stable diffusion model that learns stylistically from stylistically toward Glover's paintings.
The finished works are framed in matte black, with clean, technical detail to emphasize the contrast between the landscapes and their framing devices.
Timeframes Geo is a sub-family within the main Timeframes collection. It features time-lapse photography shot at 15 locations in North East Tasmania using a Canon 5D on a motion rig.
These images are transformed into Timeframes artworks, which incorporate geolocated metadata from shooting locations and times. The footage is processed through a stable diffusion model that learns and reuses cues from Glover's paintings.
The finished works are framed in matte black, with clean, technical detail to emphasize the contrast between the landscapes and their framing devices.
Timeframes Onchain
Timeframes Onchain
Timeframes Onchain
Timeframes Onchain reimagines, compresses, and abstracts Tasmanian landscapes for the blockchain era.
This series of 150 (TBC) minimalist, dithered artworks transforms traditional scenes into 2 and 4 bit pixel art, stored directly on the Ethereum blockchain.
By reducing complex landscapes to their essential forms and colors, the project examines nature through modern software aesthetics. It draws connections between historical landscape photography and contemporary digital art, thinking about permanence, representation, and the evolving relationship between landscape painting and digital interpretations in the 21st century.
Timeframes onchain is a reimagines, compresses and abstracts Tasmanian landscapes for the blockchain era.
This series of 100 dithered minimalist artworks transforms traditional scenes into two bit pixel art stored directly on the Ethereum blockchain.
By simplifying complex landscapes into their essential forms and colors, the project explores how we view and understand nature through modern software aesthetics and processing. It draws parallels between historical landscape photography and contemporary digital art, questioning ideas of permanence, representation, and the evolving relationship between landscape painting and digital based interpretations in the 21st century.
Timeframes onchain is a reimagines, compresses and abstracts Tasmanian landscapes for the blockchain era.
This series of 100 dithered minimalist artworks transforms traditional scenes into two bit pixel art stored directly on the Ethereum blockchain.
By simplifying complex landscapes into their essential forms and colors, the project explores how we view and understand nature through modern software aesthetics and processing. It draws parallels between historical landscape photography and contemporary digital art, questioning ideas of permanence, representation, and the evolving relationship between landscape painting and digital based interpretations in the 21st century.
Timeframes Gen
Timeframes Gen
Timeframes Gen
Timeframes Generator expands the series into 2024 by creating unlimited, unique generative AI artworks based on the original seed of 1800s Tasmanian landscapes and their reimagining through the process and format of the frames.
Using a custom Flux LORA trained on 900+ Timeframes works and integrated LLM prompt expansion, each piece is unique. It generates works of various colors, weather conditions, and Tasmanian biomes, in styles ranging from photographic to painterly, inspired by Glover’s work.
Collectors can customize the artworks or choose random generation, with formats available in 1:1, 16:9, and 9:16
Timeframes Generator expands the series into 2024 by creating unlimited, unique generative AI artworks based on John Glover's 1800s Tasmanian landscapes.
Using a custom Flux LORA trained on 900+ Timeframes works and integrated LLM prompt expansion, each piece is unique. It generates work featuring various colors, weather conditions, and Tasmanian biomes, in styles ranging from photographic to painterly, inspired by Glover.
Collectors can customize the artworks or choose random generation, with formats available in 1:1, 16:9, and 9:16 (perfect for phone wallpapers). Designed to be affordable, this open-edition artwork.
Timeframes Physical
Timeframes Physical
Timeframes Physical
In phase one, there are 15 core physical pieces, including 50x50cm lightboxes, 50x50cm, and 100x100cm Victorian black ash framed prints. Each piece includes a RFID chip that links to the digital version, certification, metadata, and other content.
These works are created at 16k resolution and look stunning in large formats. Additionally, there are 25 limited edition prints (5 editions each) and a posters, allowing collectors to own high-quality physical art without needing to buy NFTs.
A physical exhibition and catalog/book is planned, showcasing these works and video pieces on large screens. All framing and fabrication is done by Arten Melbourne to museum standards.
Phase 2 of physical works included AI assisted oil paintings, completing a loop back to the 1890's expanding the simulacra one step further.
15 key physical exhibition work (Phase 1)
25 milted edition prints (4 editions per work)
2 x A1 grid style posters of Timeframes
A key part of Timeframes is the inclusion of physical works alongside the digital series.
In phase one there are 15 main physical pieces, including 50x50cm lightboxes, 50x50cm, and 100x100cm Victorian black ash framed prints. Each piece includes an RFID chip that links to the digital version, certification, metadata, and other content.
Additionally, there are 25 limited edition prints (5 editions each) and two A1 posters.
A physical exhibition and catalog/book is planned, showcasing these works and video pieces on large screens.
* 15 physical exhibition works (Phase 1)
* 25 limited edition prints (4 editions per work)
* 2 x A1 grid style posters of Timeframes
A key part of Timeframes is the inclusion of physical works alongside the digital series.
In phase one, there are 15 main physical pieces, including 50x50cm lightboxes, 50x50cm, and 100x100cm Victorian black ash framed prints. Each piece includes an IYK RFID chip that links to the digital version, certification, metadata, and other content.
These works are created at 16k resolution and look stunning in large formats. Additionally, there are 25 limited edition prints (45 editions each) and two A1 posters, allowing collectors to own high-quality physical art without needing to buy NFTs.
A physical exhibition and catalog/book is planned, showcasing these works and video pieces on large screens. All framing and fabrication is done by Arten Melbourne to museum standards
Timeframes Motion
Timeframes Motion
Timeframes Motion
Timeframes Motion expands selected Timeframes into short video works in two sub families. "Interpolate" uses 8-12 images from a single Timeframe and lets algorithmic AI models in the transitions, revealing the biases and aesthetics of the models used.
Timelapse shows Timeframes in the landscape, capturing changes in light and weather, similar to the real timelapses I filmed in North East Tasmania but enhanced with AI.
* 20 works
* 4K video loops
Timeframes Motion expands selected Timeframes into short video works in two sub families. "Interpolate" uses 8-12 images from a single Timeframe and lets algorithmic AI models in the transitions, revealing the biases and aesthetics of the models used.
Timelapse shows Timeframes in the landscape, capturing changes in light and weather, similar to the real timelapses I filmed in North East Tasmania but enhanced with AI.
* 20 works
* 4K video loops
Timeframes Existing *
Timeframes Existing *
Timeframes Existing *
1.. Glover Interface, was released as an open edition on the Forma digital platform, Modularium. This piece ties together Glovers garden and its curated native planting with a modular ceramic plate form with a camera void at its center.
2. Timeframes X01 was the first work I published as a 3D WebGL object open edition featuring the South Esk River near Evandale, Tasmania. The warped concrete digital frame encases an image of the river, symbolizing the collision of past and present
3.. Eight Timeframes were supplied to Paul Woolford’s Special Request project blending into his breakbeat/jungle/techno 12"s, digital releases and sample packs. These were some of the earliest works I made and a further three are scheduled for release over the coming year. These records are available from his Bandcamp
1.. Glover Interface, was released as an open edition on the Forma digital platform, Modularium. This piece ties together Glovers garden and its curated native planting with a modular ceramic plate form with a camera void at its center.
2. Timeframes X01 was the first work I published as a 3D WebGL object open edition featuring the South Esk River near Evandale, Tasmania. The warped concrete digital frame encases an image of the river, symbolizing the collision of past and present
3.. Eight Timeframes were supplied to Paul Woolford’s Special Request project blending into his breakbeat/jungle/techno 12"s, digital releases and sample packs. These were some of the earliest works I made and a further three are scheduled for release over the coming year. These records are available from his Bandcamp
