Lead · Material
What you work with
- Sulfur
- Audio · the soul
Music, voice and sound - Salt
- Photo · captured light
The fixed body - Mercury
- Motion · the spirit
Picture and sound together
These three principles meet in the work you create.
Digital Alchemy Academy
Create
Differently.
A creative community exploring transformation—the WHY behind the work.
The Tria Prima is the material. The alchemical operations are the process. Explore how the work—and the artist—changes through that process.
Explore Digital AlchemyCommunity · Classroom · Live labs
AUDIO 🜍
PHOTO 🜔Captured light
MOTION ☿
Audio / Sulfur · Photo / Salt · Motion / Mercury. The material of Digital Alchemy.
An animated illustration of creative transformation
An introduction by Michael Kay
What is Digital Alchemy?
Explanation videoComing soon
Material → Process → Art
Turn Anything
Into Art.
Everything starts as material. What you do with it is the art.
The Tria Prima describes the material. The alchemical operations describe the process of transformation.
Tria Prima
SulfurAudio · the soulSaltPhoto · captured lightMercuryMotion · the spiritThe WorkThe unified piece
Circle · the Work Triangle · the material Disc · the Stone
The Fire · Process
The alchemical
operations
The Seven Operations describe the creative process: what you do with the material.
The transformation is not only in the work. The artist can be changed by the process, too.
The seven operations
Calcination · Dissolution · Separation · Conjunction · Fermentation · Distillation · Coagulation
Gold · Art
The transformed
work
Material worked, combined and changed through the artist’s choices.
The point is not simply to acquire a technique or an output. It is what happens through the doing.
How it works
Your work is the starting point.
Lessons, experiments and conversation connect around what you are making. Explore the member experience:
Your work + the community
What are you working with? What would help now?
Bring material, an influence, an experiment, or a creative question. The work begins before there is a finished piece.
Basic membership
The complete
Academy membership.
Community, classroom and live work belong together. Basic is the main experience—not an introduction you have to upgrade from.
Planned membership
$10 / month
- Community & critiqueShare unfinished work, ask specific questions, and discuss creative choices with other members.
- ClassroomLessons and demonstrations that connect technique to the reasons behind it.
- Live labsWork through creative ideas in a live session, with questions and discussion.
- Replays & project filesReturn to the demonstrations and work with the material behind them.
Enrollment is not open yet.
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A few things to know.
Is this mainly software tutorials?
No. Technique is taught, but it serves the creative process. The WHY connects the material, the artist’s choices and the transformation.
What is the Tria Prima?
The three principles of Digital Alchemy: Sulfur, audio and the soul; Salt, captured light and the fixed body; Mercury, motion and the spirit.
The Seven Operations explore how you work with that material.
What would I do first?
Introduce yourself and bring material, an influence, an experiment or a question. Explore the framework through demonstrations and your own practice, then share what changed.