Art Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about art on BlogRolly.

• The best work he had ever done — Staying inside, twilight drifts and the new year feels on hold. Reading Derek Jarman final journals, Smiling in Slow Mot
• The Art of Cybersecurity — Stunning data-driven art by Brendan Dawes for Trend Micro, The Art of Cybersecurity turns cybersecurity threat data into
• Trend Micro Perspectives — What if cybersecurity had a soundtrack? Commissioned for Trend Micro Perspectives, I turned thousands of attack logs int
• The Swan — What if a ballet became a sculpture? I transformed Natalia Makarova's 1905 ballet The Dying Swan into a flowing digital
• Moments in Music — Moments in Music, making music physical again. For my Dot Dot Dot show in Sheffield I turned three tracks from local ban
• Frequencies — Somewhere in the dark a form sends music into silence. Here I unpack Brendan Dawes' video Frequencies Frequencies, a 202
• The Opponents — Brendan Dawes's mashup hooked me from the first frame. I write about The Opponents, a 2021 AI generated digital sculptur
• Majestic Landscapes — What if your web link data became a keepsake? Here I explain building bespoke software to turn Majestic link data and Fl
• States of Mind — What does your mental health look like right now? At Nexus for the Group Therapy exhibition at FACT I tried Brendan Dawe
• Remnants — Corrupted photo ruining your memories? Here I walk through step by step methods to repair corrupted JPEG files and fix J
• Here and Elsewhere — A Camus quote inspired this filmic experiment. I collaborated with Sion Trefor on Bird in the House, scoring Here and El
• Three Steps Forward — Ever wondered how jazz looks? In my post on Brendan Dawes Three Steps Forward I write about the 2022 collaboration with
• You, Me and the Machine — A striking interactive work, Brendan Dawes' You, Me and the Machine is a generative art tribute to Herbert W. Franke. I
• Ode to Valentina — Honoring Valentina Wasson and the women who shaped psychedelic medicine. In this post I unpack Brendan Dawes' Ode to Val
• Persian Dreams — What if the Shahnameh met AI and motion? In my review of Brendan Dawes Persian Dreams I unpack AI-driven figurative and
• SPACE TUNNEL — Want to captain a spaceship made of LEDs? I guide you through Space Tunnel, an immersive LED tunnel art installation wit
• WHEN IN DOME — Step into a glowing geodesic dome where movement becomes light. In When in Dome I describe my 2018 geodesic dome light i
• Meaningful Nonsense — What if a silly sentence felt like a secret? In this post I present Meaningful Nonsense, a handwritten artwork series of
• LED Wall — A wall of 960 LEDs reacting to music. I built it for London Decompression 2015 as my first electronics project. I cover
• Collaborative Body Control Experiments — Curious about collaborative body control with Kinect? In this post I document hands on Kinect collaborative control expe
• Planning a tunnel full of LEDs — Want to see a tunnel of LEDs at Nowhere festival in Spain? In this post I walk through planning an interactive LED tunne
• THE TIGER — Surprising truth: a six-year-old's poem taught me more about courage in writing than many workshops. I write about Nael'
• Twisted Ribbons — Curious how a Genuary prompt became twisted ribbon lines? In this generative art tutorial I walk through making rows of
• Curved Line Jellyfish — Curved line jellyfish emerged from a p5js sketch. I walk through coding a circle of points and anchor points placed far
• Forecast — What if paintings looked like weather maps and constellations. I built Forecast, a long-form generative art project laun
• A strange kind of physical reality — Particles as pixels collapsing into form. A long form generative art project lands on fxhash with FAB DAO, allow list dr
• Meaningless — Curious how generative art emerges from rules and chance? I unpack my ArtBlocks debut Meaningless, dropping 30 May 2023,
• Coding my Handwriting — Too fiddly to code? Two months later I built a cursive handwriting generator in p5js from my own script. I walk through
• Where laws and guns cannot reach — A paradox: Don Mattera felt immortal yet was widely neglected. Here I revisit his poems and memoirs, trace the Don Matte
• Louise: What Was It Like to Be a Ballerina — A portrait from old Paris that tells a bigger story clothes, posture, and the quiet codes of class and respectability. I
• Paris graffiti — I wander side streets and underpasses in search of Paris graffiti and street art, chasing tags, paste-ups, and colour tu
• Rhapsody in pink — I get pulled into a palette of pink buildings, light, and small details that catch the eye. A short visual travel piece
• A random photo from Manchester — On a midweek work trip to Manchester, my wife and I stayed overnight and took an evening walk through the city. Along th
• Art — A reflective meditation on what art means outside institutions and labels, focusing on attention, intention, and the qui
• Disturbing for all the right reasons — A reflection on art and ideas that unsettle productively, asking when discomfort is a signal to pay closer attention rat
• Sick Wagner Burn, Courtesy of Hercule Poirot — A sharp, literate post weaving illness, art, and detective fiction into a meditation on decline, obsession, and aestheti
• DC Comics to Publish Rick Veitch’s “Lost” Swamp Thing Finale After 37 Years — In a move that comic historians and fans have dreamt of for over thirty years, DC has officially announced Swamp Thing 1
• ‘The Power Fantasy’ #15 | The Heartbreaking Illusion of Divine Salvation — When superpowers fight, everyone loses. That has been the thesis statement of Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s "The
• ‘Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma TP’ Review of The Hero Who Keeps Dying for You — A man cursed with endless lives must confront the sins of his past to save the future—before time itself unravels.