Brendan Dawes
The Art of Form and Code
A Strange Intimacy (2024)

New work to feature in the upcoming exhibition Factory Reality – Post-realism in the 2020s at Offline NYC

This site documents my continuing fascination for making computer-based work using generative and automated systems to create objects which exist digitaly, physically and sometimes both.

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Produced for Use — Limited edition physical objects.

Represented by Gazelli Art House.

Mar 24 2025 Blog  

That Was The Week That Was — 24th March 2025

Dec 17 2024 News  

Eno documentary shortlisted for Academy Award

Feb 22 2024 News  

Featured in On NFTs – a historical survey of NFTs from Taschen

May 5 2025 – May 6 2025 Talk  

Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf

May 8 2025 Exhibition  

Factory Reality: Post-realism in the 2020s in New York

May 14 2025 – May 15 2025 Talk  

Thinking Digital 2025 in Newcastle

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Descendants Gen 2

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Persian Dreams

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You Me and the Machine

Flocks, Herds and Schools
Plotted generative works as homage to Craig Reynold's Boids algorithm
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Certain Irregularities
Plotted generative works to commemorate the 25th anniversary of brendandawes.com
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A Strange Intimacy
A study on identity in the age of AI
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Field Notes Winter Edition 2020
99,999 unique generative snowflakes for the winter limited edition of Field Notes
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The Process
Limited Edition Screen Print
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Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
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EE - Digital City Portraits
Commission by EE for the launch of 4G
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Analog In, Digital Out
My thoughts on interaction design
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Cinema Redux ™
Creating a visual fingerprint of a movie
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