Claudia Hart’s exhibition Illuminations at bitforms gallery, New York (April 26–June 7, 2025), presents dynamic video works and algorithmic animations that merge decorative patterns, symbols, and digital processes. The show features new and legacy works, including the real-time evolving centerpiece The Days.
Illuminations marks Claudia Hart’s fifth solo show at bitforms gallery and showcases her evolving practice with algorithmic and generative art. The exhibition brings together animated pieces framed in hybrid, hand-decorated structures, drawing from Claudia Hart’s archive of heraldry, emoji, logos, alphabets, and tile motifs. Works span three series-Memory Theaters, Fallen Angels, and Proxy Angels-with the latter created using AI text-to-video tools. The centerpiece, The Days, is a monumental projection of medicinal wildflowers, coded to grow and change in real time.
“I described myself to the AI as an angel, but still an elderly Jewish woman from NY. I described my clothing and my wings. I described locations - spots where I’ve lived but are also canonical: symbols of NY, a canonical city, and therefore a representation of collective memories, so good fodder for an AI simulator - the Staten Island Ferry, under the elevated train in Flushing (where I was born), Central Park, Columbia University (where I went to school!). I wrote short, unornamented descriptive texts of them all. The text-to-image AI produced fake photographs - most of which I discarded. But enough have survived. I think of them as a new form of street photography, an outward description of my inner life.” Claudia Hart for bitforms gallery
