Generative artist: “I design artistic systems using only code.”

M.J. Lindow is a generative artist from the western United States. Inspired by art from an early age, he was constantly drawing and painting. To pay for college, he designed and built stained glass windows at a local studio. While at school he became fascinated with code and its ability to multiply human capability and later worked as a data engineer and data analyst building scalable systems to improve human effectiveness. His work as a generative artist grows out of a continued desire to use code to build scalable systems that free creative potential.

Living in close proximity to the Rocky Mountains and the deserts of southern Utah, Lindow developed a lifelong love for the outdoors and is drawn to rugged and inhospitable places. He often incorporates the natural world and the landscapes he loves into his art. Fascinated by using computers to extend human ability, his work shows the hand behind the machine by adding artificial imperfections and ‘hand-drawn’ textures.

A history of my first 365 days committed to creating generative art. The component images for the mosaic were sampled from over 110,000 test outputs I generated during the year: one image for every time I pressed save and rendered a new iteration. I wrote a Python script to assemble the test outputs into the final image. The base image includes the mountains surrounding Afton, Wyoming, a scene I captured while walking. Photography, p5.js, Python Original is 13500 x 17800 pixels; you can view this detail on objkt.

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