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Patterns, to Bay Area artist Miriam Dym @dymline, are the foundation of cultural renewal. Her body of work transforms quotidian forms like maps, patterns, logos and words into paintings and configurations. These original forms leave the firm ground of their original meanings and explore new lyrical possibilities. Dym's creative process is fiercely analog and makes room for a ballet of opposites. Her initially parametric painting methods are perturbed by inevitable errors which require error correction. Can the algorithm be error-tolerant? Can it learn?  What new opportunities arise from accidents? 

Miriam Dym is a visual artist who likes to mess around with systems. Her system inquiries range from the mildly lyrical—how can I make a fictitious map convincing?—to problem solving—how do I transform all my household trash into new, raw material? She then approaches the question through various strategies, some rigorous, others giving rise to nonsensical performance or uncertain objects. Over the last several years, while printing textiles, Dym has invented an analog system she calls Decision Fields. Through the actions of conscious agents, Decision Fields fosters the emergence of infinitely variable patterns on a plane. She is currently figuring out how to describe this process formally, as well as finding out if Decision Fields has value beyond aesthetic appeal. Decisions Fields incorporates (with neither judgement nor resistance) agent error, directional recalibrations, and unruly actions. It can also be used as a communication game (embodiedalgorithms.com).

Dym has shown at museums and galleries in the US and abroad, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and SFMOMA, which has one of her pieces in the permanent collection, Susanne Vielmetter, PØST-LA, and Pierogi. Residencies include The Watermill (Long Island, New York), Cité des Arts (Paris), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley) and Stanford University Digital Art Center. Dym is a 2017 LS&Co Sustainability grant recipient. In 2018, several works Dym created in the mid-1990s years were in "Contraption" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum—alongside Rube Goldberg.

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