Event Horizon, generative infinite animation, 2025, dimensions variable
The Story
Noema speaks about the essence of the perceived – about the way the world is processed in the mind.
The word derives from the Greek νόημα (noēma), literally meaning “thought”, “concept”, or “that which is thought”. In Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy, the noema is the “intentional content” of an act of consciousness. It is not the thing itself, but the lived version we carry within us.
This series explores the threshold between structure and experience. What is seen intertwines with what is thought, as if the images were not merely determined forms, but traces of consciousness itself. In every constellation of lights there is not only matter, but also gesture: the record of how the mind encounters the world.
Emerging from this dialogue are images that evoke remnants and reflections of the past marked with undefined feelings. It can be read as a visualization of firing neurons, out of which subconscious associations spark – imprecise but emotionally charged. These may be deeply personal: memories, impressions, fleeting sensations. But they can also expand into something more universal, recalling blurred half-remembered masterpieces, pop-cultural references, or visions of the universe.
Noema thus refers to what is given in lived experience, to the pure sense that exists between a thing and its perception. The series becomes a visual meditation in which the experiences of the viewer, the artist, and the digital image intertwine into a single thread – between the experience, its image, and the thought that binds them.
Untitled (Noema 2) – left; Nucleus (Noema 3) – right; generative infinite animation, 2025, dimensions variable
The Process
This collection didn’t follow a linear production pipeline. There was no single algorithm generating endless outputs. Instead, I approached it more like keeping a diary – but a diary written in code.
I write algorithms as self-contained worlds. When something unexpected appears – a strange rhythm, a collision of colors, a moment that feels quietly alive – I don’t save the image. I save the entire state of that algorithm: the parameters, the mood, the specific constellation of decisions that led to that moment. Then I close it. I don’t look at it again for weeks, sometimes months.
Because immediate judgment is unreliable. What feels fascinating today might feel hollow tomorrow. Our memory reshapes things, smooths edges, invents its own logic. So I return to each piece only when I’ve forgotten what I expected from it. I try to look at it as if it were made by someone else. If it still moves me – it stays. If not, it quietly disappears.
Over time, these dormant states began to feel like afterimages – traces of thought preserved in code, waiting for perception to catch up. Some pieces surprised me when I reopened them; they were nothing like what I remembered. And that divergence, that gap between memory and reality, became part of the work.
So Noema is as much about perception over time as it is about visuals. It is a practice of delayed seeing, a meditation on how our inner lens shifts when we stop trying to control it. Each artwork is not just a snapshot of computation – it is a record of attention, revisited after silence, shaped as much by forgetting as by making.
In that space between execution and recognition – in that small, private performance where code, memory, and perception meet – that’s where I try to catch the essence of seeing itself.
The series
Event Horizon (Noema 1)
Untitled (Noema 2)
Nucleus (Noema 3)
Untitled (Noema 4)
Untitled (Noema 5)
Untitled (Noema 6)
Untitled (Noema 7)
Technical specs:
- generative series of unique 1/1 outputs
- resolution-agnostic, responsive rendering
- variable code size; JavaScript, Three.js, WebGL,
- some works incorporate external bitmap assets (WEBP)
- inscribed under parent inscription: 104251915
Additional resources:
- Gamma Spotlight Blog: https://blog.gamma.io/ordinals-spotlight-noema-by-pawel-dudko
- Beyond the Canvas by Gamma
