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

Descendants
An imagined digital robot collection
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Nothing Can Ever Be The Same
A 168-hour-long, real-time generative video installation featuring the work of Brian Eno presented at the Venice Biennale.
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Collisions
A visual response to ever-increasing polarisation
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Cashier Number One Please
Third in the Oblivious series
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
Second in the Oblivious series
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AI 2041
Sci-fi inspired release for TRLab
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Generative Chairs
An AI creates over 2000 impressions of modernist chairs
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Every Year a Sound, Every Sound a Shape
Sound visualisations for legendary sound production house
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Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
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Play-Doh as Interface
Using an analog material to control digital media
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