About the Artist:
Marten Ferrer is a European artist utilizing digital evolution as his creative tool. Instead of brush and canvas or Photoshop and a tablet, he relies on code and algorithms to create unique art.
The presented art works are the result of a long standing and intense interest in the exploration of structure and complexity emerging from the natural world.
To prepare his virtual canvas, he sets up an artificial ecosystem in which interesting creatures can thrive.
The manual painting process is replaced by a selection process in which creatures are carefully bred over hours, days or weeks, selecting for ever increasing complexity and artistic value.
“This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.”
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
