Circuit Riot

Amanza Smith

52 x 70″

Acrylic Paint

Amanza Smith’s “Circuit Riot” is an electrifying explosion of color, abstraction, and fragmented cybernetic forms, where robotic entities dance across a vibrant, frenetic landscape of painterly textures and glitch-like disruptions. The composition brims with playful yet unsettling energy, evoking the aesthetics of graffiti, street art, and digital deconstruction, all colliding into a singular, chaotic vision of technology and human expression.

The robotic figures, rendered in a mix of cubist distortion and cybernetic whimsy, appear suspended in a state of flux—glitching, evolving, or perhaps unraveling altogether. Some stand confidently with singular, all-seeing eyes, while others crumble into scattered pixels and fragmented circuitry, as if caught mid-transmission between digital and analog realities. Their rigid, geometric structures contrast with the loose, expressive background—a dynamic battlefield of splattered neon, layered washes, and kinetic mark-making that suggests a world in perpetual motion.

Smith’s use of graffiti-like scrawls, floating symbols, and erratic compositions recalls the visual language of Basquiat fused with cyberpunk aesthetics, creating a sense of spontaneity and calculated disorder. The canvas itself, unstretched and curling at the edges, adds to the raw immediacy of the piece—mirroring the unpredictability and instability of the digital age.

“Circuit Riot” is a visual manifesto on the tension between technology and individuality, order and entropy, past and future. Are these robotic forms sentient beings, lost in the electric void, or are they remnants of a world overtaken by its own mechanical creations? Smith leaves the question open, allowing the viewer to get lost in the exhilarating, chaotic rhythm of a world constantly evolving—and perhaps, on the verge of crashing.