The Pixel Generation

eBoy

is an art group based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Founded in 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital, it is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of pixel art, often referred to as The Godfathers of Pixel. The central idea behind eBoy was to have fun using newly available digital tools and media. The decision to directly work on, and for, the screen led to the use of pixels. A modular-based work system started to evolve and resulted in complex object-based artwork. Their work has been presented in galleries worldwide and they have worked with major clients, including Adidas, Balenciaga, Coca-Cola, Google, Gucci and The New York Times, amongst many others.

Loackme

is a French generative artist currently working in Amsterdam. After completing his PhD in Statistics and working as a researcher, he made the decision to leave academia in 2018 and pursue his passion for digital art and graphic design. Loackme’s artistic practice is characterised by his exploration of monochrome and geometric designs, as well as animated loops. Amongst other things, he’s a self-professed “dither enthusiast”, using various dithering algorithms to create the illusion of a wide range of colours (or shades of grey) from a limited palette. The strong aesthetics and constraints associated with these algorithms are a constant source of inspiration for him. Loackme’s works have been exhibited internationally including at NFT.NYC, DEMO Festival and PARIS+ par Art Basel.

Galo

also known as itsgalo, is a designer, writer, and educator working across various creative fields from architecture to digital art to experimental software. His work interrogates our ongoing relationship to software culture. Through animation, limited colour palettes and low-res graphics he recalls the strange behaviours and aesthetics of digital media and connects his work to the history of computer-based art. His artwork has been included in exhibitions worldwide, including Imperfections at Verse, London; Parallel Rules at a83 Gallery, Soho, New York and Bit by Bit at the Seattle NFT Museum, Seattle. He is currently an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design.

Sarah Ridgley

is an American artist currently based in Arkansas. Her work explores the space between the hand-drawn and the computer-drawn and considers how to blur those boundaries. She discovered generative art by chance when teaching herself programming and was drawn to the idea of creative coding. She uses p5js and JavaScript to build her programs and designs her own algorithmic brushes to complete each piece. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Digital for Miami Art Week (2021), Artists Who Code at VellumLA (2022), with Tezos at Art Basel, Hong Kong and Paris+ par Art Basel (2022), FEMGEN (2022), and Code Chronicles with bitforms gallery (2023).

Fay Carsons

is an American artist and musician who employs generative and computational techniques in her work. Her focuses include shaders, modular synthesisers, and the aesthetics of limit experiences and liminality. She has dropped a number of projects on fx(hash), including Angels, where she experimented with fragmented geometries and capitalised on the contrasts between dark and light to create striking shapes within empty space. In other projects, including Apophenia and Annealment, she has explored more organic, amorphous forms, demonstrating her versatile practice and mastery of colour.

Elsif

is a Chinese-Canadian visual artist and computer scientist, currently living in California. She has always had a keen interest in art and started drawing realistic portraits of people at a very young age as a way to learn facial features to cope with face blindness. She was drawn to programming due to its infallibility and ability to automate and expedite what would otherwise be repetitive tasks. With a focus on experimentation in techniques and expression, Elsif creates digital art with geometric shapes and parametric curves, using lots of maths, some physics, and occasionally some machine learning. She also draws inspiration from both Eastern and Western cultures, demonstrating the beauty of algorithmic motifs and their connection to nature and human perception.

Aleksandra Jovanić

is an artist and programmer from Belgrade, Serbia, who holds a PhD in digital arts and a BSc in computer science. In her research and artistic practice she combines various media, mainly in the field of interactive art, art games, and generative art. Jovanic’s recent works focus on the aesthetic of data visualisation and optical illusions, as well as explorations of accepted concepts of truth and reality. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has been included in exhibitions held by VerticalCrypto Art, FeralFile and Tezos. As an assistant professor, she teaches at the new media department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

LoVid

is an artist duo, based in New York. Making use of home-made synthesisers and hand-cranked code, they have worked collaboratively since 2001. Their work has been presented internationally at venues including the Netherland Media Art Institute, ICA London, The Jewish Museum, MoMA and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Their projects have received support from organisations including The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, UC Santa Barbara and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2022 their collection About Tide Predictor was selected for an Art Blocks Curated release. Their work is also included in numerous museum collections worldwide, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Parrish Art Museum and The Heckscher Museum.

Peter Burr

is a digital and new media artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His practice often engages with tools of the video game industry in the form of immersive cinematic artworks. These pieces have been presented internationally by various institutions including Documenta 14, Athens; MoMA PS1, New York; and The Barbican Centre, London. Previously he worked under the alias Hooliganship and founded the video label Cartune Xprez through which he produced hundreds of live multimedia exhibitions and touring programs showcasing artists at the forefront of experimental animation. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sundance New Frontier Fellowship and a Creative Capital Grant, among numerous other accolades.