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Cloud Writings
2024
Ongoing series of plotter drawings on paper and PVC. Premiered in the exhibition Angles Morts
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Swallow, Only Shallow
2024
A series heavily inspired by the complex textures of distortion in Shoegaze music
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Resolution Paintings
2023
Series of pixel "paintings" constructed by recursively subdividing squares
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Mutant Garden
2019
In Mutant Garden, clicking one rectangular 'mutant' will cause its siblings to be replaced with newly mutated offspring. This breeding strategy requires only one parent to
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Nested Exchange
2018
Two works are taken from a determined population and communicate - gossip if you will - by flipping a node of their nested structure. The direction
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Algues Artificielles
2017
I devised a system in which the drawings, consisting of multiple lines and shapes, would evolve and improve over time. In many iterations, the system would
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Automated Drawings
2017
Drawings on paper made with a CNC-router, disturbed and complemented by my own hand. Various scripts and custom software were programmed to generate each unique drawing
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Death Imitates Language
2016
A series of works exploring the development of meaning in generative aesthetics using micro feedback and a genetic algorithm. It consists of a website and a
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Delinear Whiteboards
2015
A series of whiteboard with custom magnets
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Chrysalis Sculptures
2015
A series of hanging sculptures made from UV printed heatshrink foil and other packaging materials
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Assemblages
2011
Sculptures, usually hanging, made from acrylic glass, hand- or CNC cut, printed with UV cured inks
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Diagonal Enlargements
2009
Low resolution found images enlarged by a custom diagonal enlargement algorithm
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Ethereal Self & Others
2008
Two connected websites, capturing and displaying people with their own webcam (after consent)
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Animal Configurations
2007
Series of found images of animals reconfigured with Photoshop or self-programmed software
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Revenant Series
2006 – 2008
Series of animated found images of collapsed peoples
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Window and Dream
2004
Series of generative animations based on (deterministic) chance, of which some (fully) on-chain
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