David Fried

now in our gallery

David Frieds "Self Organizing Still-Life" (SOS) is a series of interactive, sound-stimulated kinetic sculptures, that capture the essence of chance and interdependent emergent systems, which are highly flexible in nature and thrive on feedback.

Each hand-made solid sphere contains an individual ´personality´. As two people would dance differently to the same music, our voices and sounds will influence - but not control - the individual spheres motions. They interact unpredictably with each other, moving magically in a fluid, real-time choreography that can never repeat.  When sounds are no longer detected, the spheres come to rest in ever-different constellations. (Still Life).

The spheres´ interaction create infinite possibilities and outcomes, with a finite resource. On the human stage, Frieds SOS can be seen as a model of creative problem-solving where connectivity, ideas and engagement are capital, within a limited resource such is our natural world.

Creating a live generative and interactive experience, these works use simplicity in form combined with complexity of motion to provoke the viewer to forge their own nuanced personal perspectives on the dynamic nature of relationship, communication, society, psyche and life here on Earth.

The multidisciplinary artist David Fried (1962, NYC) explores qualities of complex dynamic relationships in the form of minimalistic images and objects. The inherent flexible characteristics of interdependent networked systems operating far-from-equilibrium found in nature and social endeavor, are echoed throughout his sculptural, photographic and interactive works. The artist employs highly symbolic motifs that are universally recognizable as organic or pertaining to natural phenomena with self organizing qualities, contextually infused with hints of human influence and our desire to control, manipulate and predict outcomes. In a human world that is increasingly aware of and witness to the influence of self-organizing systems, Fried explores the space between the lingering anachronism of the clockwork world view and the vandgarde of progressive systems thinking on diverse themes such as communication, sociology, ecology and biology. His essential inspirations are drawn from unpredictability, emergent complexity and influence - over the illusion of true control. Adding to the lucid sense of harmony and sensual aesthetic found in his compositions, Fried also draws eclectic references from mythological and scientific realms, which are globally present in our societies and cultures, and much like the ancients archetypical signs, he condenses complex contemporary issues into enigmatic symbols that mark pivotal changes in our belief systems, whereby fact and fiction become one.