Traditionally, art is about capturing a moment, but with Constellations (77 Million Paintings) sound and light artist Brian Eno has thrown the rulebook out of the window.

Though more famous for his musical achievements as one of the founding members of Roxy Music and producer for the likes of Talking Heads and David Bowie, Eno has developed a strong sideline as a visual artist, working with generative light compositions in the same way that he worked with ambient music on classic albums including Music For Airports and Neroli.

For Constellations - which makes its UK debut on Level 4 of the Baltic - Eno has taken over 300 of his original paintings, most of them scratched onto slides, and scanned them into a specially designed computer programme that continually fuses his works to create 77 million different permutations of dazzling colour and violent fluidity.

"We are used to artists producing defined and finished things, what's interesting about this kind of generative work is that I can't possibly predict the outcome of 77 Million Paintings," says Eno.

With the images changing at random speeds, it's been estimated that it would take over 9,000 years to watch the entire show at the fastest speed available on the software and it would take several million years to witness all the possible combinations it can create.

And this is perhaps the most striking aspect of Constellations - as having created the seed of the work, the artwork becomes uncontrollable, even to Eno himself. Indeed, with the virtually infinite number of variations comes the chance for every viewer to have a unique experience of the artwork, pushing the boundaries between convention and innovation to a new level.

Baltic, Gateshead. 31st January - 15th April 2007. Admission free