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15.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th February 2026
Lots of type experiments this week, created in Houdini and also Touch Designer. In Houdini the minpos() method is great for constraining …
08.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th February 2026
This week started with a trip down to London for a meeting with Mila Askarova, owner of Gazelli Art House, who've been representing me for …
30.08.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th August 2025
Bugs and Errors At the beginning of the week I noticed my site was peppered with errors and bugs. The latest version of PHP had thrown up …
01.05.25 The front cover of my latest publication is actually a data visualisation of …
The front cover of my latest publication is actually a data visualisation of the updates on my site over the years. It tracks from 2016 — …
30.04.25 💥Now Becomes Then — A forty page, large format algorithmic broadsheet …
💥Now Becomes Then — A forty page, large format algorithmic broadsheet publication to mark twenty five years of brendandawes.com Since 2000 …
25.04.25 🎤 Meet the Minds of Thinking Digital 2025 🎤 We've got a fabulous speaker lineup …
🎤 Meet the Minds of Thinking Digital 2025 🎤 We've got a fabulous speaker lineup including.. 🚀 @juliantreasure : a TED Talk Titan on …
01.04.25 Data Sculpture
Data Sculpture. Work from last year that may never see the light of day. Explorations using artist market data, created in #Houdini. These …
16.03.25 That Was The Week That Was – 16th March 2025
I've been continuing to explore more ideas using the Axidraw plotter, looking at various algorithms for generating possible prints. One of …
16.02.25 That Was The Week That Was - 16th February 2025
For many years now the music I play in the studio is routed through a Raspberry Pi running a thing called Mopidy – a music server written …
11.02.25 More generative cut-up tests
More generative cut-up tests. This time using films from the Preminger archive together with some Rosindale Ultra type from @djrrb
30.01.25 Bash Function to Calculate Image Print Size
This one is pretty niche but I find it handy so thought I'd post it here in case others find it useful. Often times I find myself needing …
05.01.25 That Was The Week That Was - 5th January 2025
There are certain things in this world which keep me sane; things that I look too which reinforce my idea people are inherently good and …
19.12.24 Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers
Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers Great lecture by David Spiegelhalter on chance, randomness and …
02.11.24 From the archive 2016
From the archive 2016. A sketch creating generative objects and selecting subsets for possible interface ideas.
14.10.24 Coded typography
Coded typography. From the archive from a few years ago, created in Processing, exported as a 3D .obj model then rendered in Fusion 360.
10.10.24 Morfff
Morfff. From the archive. I’ve always been fascinated with creating physical analog objects from a coded digital process. A few years ago …
01.10.24 Nothing Can Ever Be The Same at @dokleipzig Myself and @gary_hustwit will be …
Nothing Can Ever Be The Same at @dokleipzig Myself and @gary_hustwit will be presenting a second outing of Nothing Can Ever Be The Same as …
25.08.24 Data needs poetry
Data needs poetry.
31.07.24 The Art of Cybersecurity (2019) As this was featured in the history of …
The Art of Cybersecurity (2019) As this was featured in the history of generative art timeline created by @lerandomart_ I thought I’d post …
27.07.24 Rsync command to copy files and log errors
Had to move my archive to another disk recently and rather than use copy in the Mac Finder, I prefer to use rsync in the Terminal as it’s …
25.04.24 On May 2nd join me in New York as @bangolufsen and @makersplace present new …
On May 2nd join me in New York as @bangolufsen and @makersplace present new data born generative work at the B&O flagship store in …
18.12.23 2023 has been a varied, interesting year
2023 has been a varied, interesting year. Whilst my work is not for everyone, nor would I want it to be, I appreciate all the support from …
15.11.23 Close-up detail from Passengers:BCN
Close-up detail from Passengers:BCN. Created for the Digital Impact exhibition in Barcelona earlier this year, this work shows the effect …
25.10.23 Before opening the doors yesterday morning I captured more examples of the …
Before opening the doors yesterday morning I captured more examples of the real-time generative output from Nothing Can Ever Be The Same, …
18.10.23 Heading to Venice for NOTHING CAN EVER BE THE SAME, my video art installation …
Heading to Venice for NOTHING CAN EVER BE THE SAME, my video art installation with @gary_hustwit . This is not Gary’s forthcoming …
08.06.23 Algorithmic Data Sculpture explorations
Algorithmic Data Sculpture explorations.
07.06.23 Collisions – Volume Two
Collisions – Volume Two. Numbers 5–8 are now available on @makersplace. Each 1/1 comes with a signed museum quality print. Your browser …
07.02.23 First 3D print of three for forthcoming exhibition in Barcelona
For Digital Impact in Barcelona, this is the first of three data sculptures. Created from BCN airport for 2020.
19.12.22 WIP for Digital Impact, Barcelona 2023
I’m looking forward to being part of the Digital Impact group exhibition in Barcelona next year running from April 27th till August. The …
18.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 18th September 2022
This week I had two priorities: finish the work for the IN TOUCH group show curated by VerticalCrypto and Anika Meier and also make good …