Infinite Reflections

By: Aidan Lincoln

Aidan Lincoln is a multi-disciplinary artist based out of Brooklyn, NY who uses a wide array of new media technology, digital fabrication tools, and machine learning to create light sculptures, illusions, generative art, neural network art. Generally, he creates physical sculptures that look like renders and renders that look like real world artifacts. Aidan is currently a post-doc artist in residence at NYU TISCH School Of The Arts Interactive Telecommunication Program where he completed his MPS in 2021 and will be showing multiple pieces including the video infinity mirror on display at Illumination NYC in the Telfair Museum in Savannah Georgia in 2022.

Infinite Reflections is the first video infinity mirror. The light sculpture is built around a 14336 pixel circular led screen which displays generative digital artworks which are warped and reflected by the mirrors contained in the work. Infinite Reflections deconstructs what a screen can be by flipping the pixels perpendicular to the viewer then bending them back to parallel using a novel optical design. This new physical paradigm opens possibilities in the digital realm for generating illusions. The screen, which appears to be a hemisphere made up of increasingly small repetitions of the outermost band of visuals, allows for the creation of a moving tunnel illusion pushing the viewer into a surreal experience where they physically feel as if they are moving through the visuals.