Pharmacie, a moving image piece from Nick Fudge's Picasso Pizazz collection, represents the convergence of modernist aesthetics and machine futurism from a meta-modern, technologically advanced perspective. Set in the French town of Honfleur, the birthplace of the eccentric composer Erik Satie (who is represented in the collection), Pharmacie brings together three avant-garde modernists. The work depicts a Citroën Picasso, a symbol of modern mechanization, reflected and refracted through an animated sequence that alludes to painted abstraction (a genre Picasso avoided) and the algorithmic recursions that drive machine-generated images. Duchamp's presence in this evolving mise-en-scène is represented by reductive iterations of the Pharmacie, with its flashing green sign as the work's finale; the work references Duchamp's (assisted) readymade Pharmacie with its conceptual play on commercial and mundane objects transformed into art. The work alludes to mimetic representations of nature in art and to machine learning algorithms represented in the design of the Citroën as shifting mirror reflections and abstract refractions.

RGB Calibration (After Jasper Johns) by Nick Fudge presents a stunning visual exploration of a singular still digital image (and its iterations) that is constantly unfolding and transforming. This animation is based on a photograph of an editioned sculpture (of a light bulb) by the American artist Jasper Johns, which represents a reproduction of a reproduction.

This work draws a connection between Jasper Johns and Duchamp, specifically Duchamp's skeptical assertion that everything happens 'in the dark' and that most ideas are in fact mere tautologies. Johns' light bulb sculpture interprets Duchamp's concept by symbolizing the 'eureka!' moment of an idea, but he intentionally leaves the bulb unplugged and unlit, symbolizing the darkness and ignorance that surrounds everything. In contrast, Fudge's work illuminates Johns' light bulb, symbolizing the electrifying potential of the digital medium. Through multicolored and prismatic iterative imaging, this animation celebrates the limitless possibilities of creating versions and reproductions.