Brendan Dawes
The Art of Form and Code

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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Explore the work: data / electronic / web / paper / plastic / pixels / iot / interface / time / memories / everything

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Produced for Use — Limited edition physical objects.

Represented by Gazelli Art House.

Mar 15 2024 Blog /  

“Nobody asks a painter what make of paint brush they use

Feb 22 2024 News /  

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

Jan 18 2024 News /  

World Premiere of ENO at the Sundance Film Festival

Mar 19 2024 Talk / London  

Tuesday Talk

Apr 20 2024 Screening / London  

UK Premiere of ENO

May 1 2024 Screening / New York  

New York Premiere of ENO

May 10 2024 Screening / San Francisco  

SF Bay Area Premiere of ENO

May 23 2024 Talk / Milton Keynes  

All Flows

May 23 2024 Screening / Chicago  

Chicago Premiere of ENO

Available to collect /  

Collisions Volume 2

Available to collect /  

Persian Dreams

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You Me and the Machine

Descendants
An imagined digital robot collection
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Passengers BCN
Physical sculptures created from Barcelona airport passenger numbers during COVID
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Ode to Valentina
A tribute to female pioneers in the field of psychedelic medicine.
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Persian Dreams
AI-driven figurative and abstract works recount the golden age of Persia
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Passengers BER
Revealing the silence of the pandemic through Berlin's passenger traffic
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Press Any Key To Escape
Real-time patterns inspired by a former work-life
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Three Steps Forward
A collaboration with Jazz pianist Emmet Cohen
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Infinite Glimpses
Generating infinite compositions from a month of desktop screen captures
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16-Bit Machine Dreams
The video game trilogy concludes
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Cashier Number One Please
Third in the Oblivious series
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Remnants
A second collaboration with Charlotte Edmonds and Logan Nelson
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Digital Baroque: La Primavera
Baroque inspired digital sculpture
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
Second in the Oblivious series
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Passengers LHR
Second in the Passengers series
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Passengers SZX
The Pandemic As Seen Through Airport Passenger Traffic
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AI 2041
Sci-fi inspired release for TRLab
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8-Bit Machine Dreams
8-bit video console games as sculptural souvenirs
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Frequencies
A collaboration with musician Sion Trefor
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The Pandora Variations
A collaboration of music, choreography and generative art as a reaction to the pandemic, inspired by the myth of Pandora
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Satellites
Algorithmic sculptures born from the Apollo 11 moon landing transcript
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Moments
Visualising moments in history captured on film, television or video
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The Opponents
Digital sculptures formed from the 1994 arcade fighting game Tekken
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The Swan
Creating a flowing sculptural form from an iconic ballet performance
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Trend Micro Perspectives XDR
Data-born generative motion piece for Trend Micro event
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Choreographic
AI Driven Motion Studies
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Trend Micro Perspectives
Data born artwork with a musical motif
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The Process
Limited Edition Screen Print
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Here, Around and Beyond
Visualising Conference Attendees
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Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 Titles and Graphic Design
Animation and graphic design for German creative festival
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Morfff
The letter holder made from code and concrete
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Pluralsight Skill Sets
1.3 million assessments visualised as clusters of skills
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Embraer Data Streams
LED and AR installation at the Farnborough Airshow for Embraer
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Amongst The Leaves
Nature inspired physical data objects
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Carefully Everywhere Descending
Real-time data installation for PricewaterhouseCoopers' London Data Lab
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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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Platts 360 Visualisation
Visualising 3000 shipping routes
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Plastic Player
A Playful Analog Interface for Digital Music
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Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
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Local Murmurs
Story-sharing installation for Airbnb at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
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Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
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Dot Dot Dot Exhibition
A Solo Exhibition on Design with Data
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Analog In, Digital Out
My thoughts on interaction design
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Play-Doh as Interface
Using an analog material to control digital media
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