Zone Out To Fabio Keiner’s Generative New Media Abstractions

Lead image, “Chant Of Seraphim.”

What’s more efficient than using computers to help you make art? Using the computers to make the art for you. Viennese-born artist, musician, and photographer Fabio Keiner does just that, employing PCs to create his ethereal abstractions. The resulting images echo something like if the meditative airs of Rothko and Richter rolled across the uncanny valley. 

From the artist’s statement on Subterranean Tide: “born 1959 [sic] and living in Vienna, Austria (i.e. rather an oldtimer now), I only got more interested in music/soundworks with the age of vst/pc-music—10 years ago. Most of my interests focused on generative, casual, ambient improvisations—’I hate music, but I love sound’ once I wrote… the sounds of wind, sea and leaves… working by their own.”

Below, selections from his more recent works:

Wind Songs (2014), Images via

Winter Sunset (2014) 

Flight of the Angel (2014)

Black Rain (2014)

In addition to his New Media art, Keiner is also a photographer and ambient electroacoustic musician. Incidentally, his music makes a perfect soundtrack for a long traipse through his other artworks. Zone out into more of Keiner’s generative abstractions on Artdoxa, and his music via Soundcloud.