Spherical Harmonics dwells on the ineluctably CGI-like qualities of even the most realistic CGI imagery.
It is a hermetically sealed fantasy, full of digitally created memories, counterfeit physics and controlled accidents. A place where reality fails because it’s too perfect, and where spectacular CGI setpieces are replaced with more introverted and complex fantasies – fantasies of the digital-artist-as-god, lost in uncanny valley.
Farbeit from me to argue with the artist, but let’s forget the Uncanny Valley. There’s more to this than that. It’s not about what the machine can’t quite show. It’s not even about what the machine sees; it’s about what the machine makes you see.