Rashaad Newsome
Who is Rashaad Newsome?
Newsome is an Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans filmmaking, collage, sculpture, music, writing, artificial intelligence, and performance.
How does his work move across forms
By weaving these mediums together, Newsome creates projects that oscillate between social practice and abstraction.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
How does the landscape come alive
Somatic Landscapes presents a continuous journey through Northern California landmarks, from the cliffs of Big Sur to the towering Redwoods.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
Mist drifts, light shifts, and leaves ripple with motion generated from the movement data of human dancers, creating a subtle choreography threaded through the scenery.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
What changes when you step closer
As viewers approach, the artwork reacts.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
The natural landscape dissolves into a vivid field of fractal and abstract forms, collaged together by an algorithm alongside layered music samples. The result is a shifting visual language that feels both organic and computational.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
Why combine bodies, nature, and mathematics
Through this piece, Newsome draws attention to the deep links between natural patterns and computational systems.
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
“Fractal geometry is often associated with mathematics and computer science,” Newsome notes, “but it’s also naturally occurring.”
Somatic Landscapes by Rashaad Newsome by Henrik Kam 2025
The artwork becomes “a way to start a conversation between the natural world and the body and mathematics,” inviting viewers to explore how these realms echo one another.
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