Auditory Optics Museum: Editorial

This project explores the complex and ever-evolving relationship between music and the artwork created for it. What began as an observation of the rise of boring, overly simple, or uninspired artwork quickly devolved into a critique of what constitutes good or bad art, which I had never intended. To counter this, I decided to explore different mediums and ways of making this art. In this project, I take the audience through a brief history of album art, and its manifestations, and in the end, speculate on the future of album art and artificial intelligence’s potential role in it. The abstract, futuristic visuals were created to give the impression that the designer and the audience are already in the future. Perhaps we are at a museum, looking through recovered artifacts and relics of the past. In this case, 20th and 21st Century relics reflect the history of album artwork making. The “artifacts” are artfully suspended in a type of zero-gravity observation chamber along with other stones and fossils for the artifact to be studied.