Writing The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in particular the recent gold rush around crypto-art and NFTs. I've seen a lot
Plotter Cistercian Plotter Postcards I've put together a limited series of four plotter postcards for the Feb 2021 Plotter Postcard Exchange. They use a numbering system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century,
2020 in Review 2020 in Review: Generative & Data Art This the second of three end-of-year roundups that I'm writing about my work in 2020, covering information design, generative & data art and community building. I’ll be talking about
Generative Art Generative Postcards Earlier this year, I sent a set of generative postcards to subscribers of my newsletter living all around the world. The postcards were all unique, their design generated by the
Generative Art What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches During the month of October 2020, I created 31 pieces of generative art – one a day – from a list of prompts published by the folks at Inktober. Normally people draw
Plotter Chillplots For several months, over on my Plottervision YouTube channel, I've been hosting semi-regular streams that I call "Chillplots". Pen plotters are very satisfying to watch, so I figured it'd be
Completed Work Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art Ekistics is the the science of human settlements, of how we fit into our environments, and how those environments affect us. The term was coined in 1942 by Greek archictect
Generative Art Streamlined Generative Art I've spent some time over the last few days streamlining my generative art process. I would like there to be as little friction as possible between having an idea and
Generative Art From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres Back in May 2018, I attended OpenVisConf in Paris, and I took the opportunity to visit the "Artistes et Robots" exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter
Generative Art Height Noise I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar, after all. But why use a simulation of
Plotter A Weekend With a Plotter It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips
Plotter A Wild Plotter Appears! I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3. I had a grand plan to save up money slowly
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #5 Oops! It's been more than a month since I last published sketchbook pages. My only excuse is that I've been caught up in generative art instead. As such, here are
Generative Art Mountain Drive I spent a chunky part of the last 24 hours or so learning about noise. Specifically, about Perlin noise - a way to generate random numbers that feel more organic
Generative Art Beachside 1 My generative art skills are progressing faster than they might otherwise, thanks to all the time freed up that I'd normally be spending hanging out with other humans. Every cloud
Generative Art Smoulder 1-5 I was making some generative versions of what I wanted my upcoming Carbon in Context graphic to vaguely look like. Then I put in some ridiculous values for the fun
Generative Art Sharing Generative Sketches I've registered an Instagram account for my generative art sketches. Go check out @vhfseizures. I'm not especially wild about using Instagram. Every third post in my feed is an ad
Code Generative Design Last week I ordered a new book, and yesterday it arrived. Generative Design is a guide to creating generative art using the P5.js library. It includes a gentle tutorial
Experiments Replicated Territories The other day I saw this great bit of plotter work on Twitter, and loved the look, so I wanted to see if I could replicate something similar digitally. Territories
