Andrew Benson is an experimental animator and media artist based in Los Angeles, California. He discovered analog video feedback for the first time at age 13, and later reflected, “It was at that moment, staring into the electric vortex, that I became a media artist for life.” He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in parallel with independently exploring music and electronics. Now, his gestural, saturated works have been performed and exhibited internationally through screenings, festivals, museums, and galleries both on and offline. Collaboration with musicians is also an integral part of his practice, and over the years he has developed visual performances and videos for Aphex Twin, Clipping, M.I.A., and many others.
LIA is an artist based in Vienna, Austria. She is a pioneer of software and net.art, with her earliest work going back to the mid-1990s. LIA has explored every emerging media since that time, including CD-ROMs, the web, apps, and more recently, NFTs. Her practice spans video, performance, software, installations, sculpture, projections, and digital applications, and her works combine traditions of drawing and painting with the aesthetics of digital images and algorithms. Her work has been exhibited online and in physical exhibitions at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Tinguely Museum (Basel), Laboral (Gijón), and many more. Her early online work re-move.org (1999–2003) is a part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology.
Dmitri Cherniak is an artist and coder based in New York City. His algorithmic art has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Miami. His most recent project, Ringers (2021), generated an algorithmic edition of 1,000 unique pieces of generative images on the Art Blocks platform. Above all else, Dmitri considers automation as his primary artistic medium. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, and he started using social media to share his ongoing projects in 2019.
Raven Kwok (aka Guo, Ruiwen) is a visual artist and creative technologist based in Shanghai, China. He explores generative aesthetics through computer algorithms and software processes. From his origins as a self-taught animator at the age of 13, his works have been exhibited and screened at media art and film festivals worldwide, including Ars Electronica, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), Vienna Independent Shorts (VIS), Punto y Raya (PyR), Resonate, FIBER, and many others. Kwok earned a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2014.
Anna Carreras is a Barcelona, Spain-based creative coder and digital artist whose work focuses on generative algorithms and interactive technology. In addition to working directly with code, Anna develops interactive installations to explore new emerging narratives with an emphasis on audience collaboration. She is interested in the complexity that emerges from small simple behaviors, and she aspires to capture the diversity and richness of complex systems in her works. Throughout the pandemic, she created daily code sketches, which she called “quarantena generativa,” to explore new ideas.
Manolo Gamboa Naon is an artist based in Argentina, with origins working in traditional materials. He started coding with Flash at an early age, and when asked what learning to code meant to him, he says, “It changed my life, [because] the possibilities are infinite.” From 2012–2020 he produced an extraordinary volume of diverse work, which he shared openly with his online audiences.
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. She has exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Verse, London; HEK, Basel; and the online platform Feral File. She has been invited to speak on her work at The New Museum, NYC; The V&A and Tate Britain, London; and MOCA, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Document, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Dazed among other publications. She organizes a curatorial project called HEART, previously run out of her studio in SoHo. She is online at mayaontheinter.net.
Frederik Vanhoutte is an artist and medical radiation physicist based in Bruges, Belgium. He started sharing work online in 2004 under the pseudonym Wintermute, which was shortened to W:Mute and ultimately transformed into his current moniker, W:Blut. He writes, “Code gives me a way to play, to explore the odd behavior of our world, to find the systems beneath it all.” Frederik discovered coding generating visuals while he was a physics PhD candidate, and for over twenty years, he has continued to evolve his practice, making significant contributions to the networked community of generative artists and the free, open-source software that supports it.
Saskia Freeke is an artist and designer based in The Netherlands. She is a pioneer of daily creative coding (aka “dailies”), and she has posted new explorations online every day since January 2015. She currently posts her dailies on Tumblr, Ello, Twitter, and Instagram, and she has shared her work with audiences in Berlin, London, Paris, Los Angeles ,and many locations in The Netherlands. Saskia is also an educator who has taught physical computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and visual design at the University of the Arts Utrecht School for Games and Interaction. She earned a Master of Arts in Computational Arts degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017.
Dave Whyte is a motion designer based in Dublin, Ireland. He is a prolific creator of captivating animated loops—his influential Tumblr account Bees & Bombs popularized animated GIFs created from code, while simultaneously changing Dave’s focus from physics student to full-time motion designer. After receiving his PhD from the Trinity College Dublin School of Physics in 2017, Dave has been working in his studio full time under the same moniker, Bees & Bombs. Since 2011, he has made 1,000s of 5–10 second looping animations, each year going deeper into the details of coded form and perception.
