Brendan Dawes
The Art of Form and Code
Nothing Can Ever Be The Same (2023)

Nothing Can Ever Be The Same will be on display as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025 at York Art Gallery from 19 Sep 2025 — 25 Jan 2026

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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2025-09-03 16:31:33 Blog  

Divergent routes

2024-12-17 News  

Eno documentary shortlisted for Academy Award

2024-02-22 News  

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

2025-09-19 – Jan 25 2025 Exhibition  

Aesthetica Art Prize in York

2025-09-24 Talk  

MK Geek Night in Milton Keynes

2025-10-03 – Dec 20 2025 Group Show  

Subject to Change in London

Available to collect  

Descendants Gen 2

Available to collect  

Persian Dreams

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You Me and the Machine

Now Becomes Then
A large format algorithmic broadsheet publication to mark twenty five years of brendandawes.com
2025-04-30 22:31:18
Flocks, Herds and Schools
Plotted generative works as homage to Craig Reynold's Boids algorithm
2025-03-14 22:31:18
Certain Irregularities
Plotted generative works to commemorate the 25th anniversary of brendandawes.com
2025-02-27 22:31:18
Altarpiece: The Divinity
A meditation on our relationship with AI through a religious inspired triptych
2025-02-05 22:31:18
A Strange Intimacy
A study on identity in the age of AI
2024-12-01 22:31:18
In Harmony; The Five Boroughs
Digital sculptures created from New York population density data
2024-04-24 00:00:00
Descendants
An imagined digital robot collection
2024-02-01 03:41:08
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.
2023-10-22 16:00:00
Passengers BCN
Physical sculptures created from Barcelona airport passenger numbers during COVID
2023-05-24
Ode to Valentina
A tribute to female pioneers in the field of psychedelic medicine.
2023-05-23 02:43:23
Persian Dreams
AI-driven figurative and abstract works recount the golden age of Persia
2023-03-01 15:31:18
Collisions
A visual response to ever-increasing polarisation
2023-02-27 11:46:00
You, Me and the Machine
Tribute to Herbert W. Franke
2022-10-01 22:31:18
Passengers BER
Revealing the silence of the pandemic through Berlin's passenger traffic
2022-09-23 22:31:18
Press Any Key To Escape
Real-time patterns inspired by a former work-life
2022-07-22
Three Steps Forward
A collaboration with Jazz pianist Emmet Cohen
2022-06-20
Infinite Glimpses
Generating infinite compositions from a month of desktop screen captures
2022-06-18 15:31:18
Moments Spent With Others
Inaugural solo show at Gazelli Art House
2022-05-29
60 Minutes on the Ethereum Blockchain
Creation for Tatler Asia
2022-04-06 09:06:41
16-Bit Machine Dreams
The video game trilogy concludes
2022-02-23 22:31:18
Here and Elsewhere
Collaboration with Sion Trefor
2022-02-02 12:47:00
Cashier Number One Please
Third in the Oblivious series
2022-01-31 03:41:08
Remnants
A second collaboration with Charlotte Edmonds and Logan Nelson
2022-01-22 15:31:18
Digital Baroque: La Primavera
Baroque inspired digital sculpture
2021-12-10 22:31:18
Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
Second in the Oblivious series
2021-12-10 03:41:08
Passengers LHR
Second in the Passengers series
2021-12-01 15:31:18
Passengers SZX
The Pandemic As Seen Through Airport Passenger Traffic
2021-12-01 15:31:18
AI 2041
Sci-fi inspired release for TRLab
2021-10-22 22:31:18
8-Bit Machine Dreams
8-bit video console games as sculptural souvenirs
2021-10-18 22:31:18
Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Learning to look up
2021-10-15 09:06:08
Frequencies
A collaboration with musician Sion Trefor
2021-09-22 15:31:18
The Pandora Variations
A collaboration of music, choreography and generative art as a reaction to the pandemic, inspired by the myth of Pandora
2021-06-10 15:31:18
The Collectors
Digital and Physical Sculptures born from Ethereum Transactions
2021-05-21 22:31:18
Satellites
Algorithmic sculptures born from the Apollo 11 moon landing transcript
2021-05-08 22:31:18
Moments
Visualising moments in history captured on film, television or video
2021-04-08 15:31:18
The Opponents
Digital sculptures formed from the 1994 arcade fighting game Tekken
2021-03-21 15:31:18
Arcade Machine Dreams
Classic video games create flowing forms
2021-02-15 22:31:18
The Swan
Creating a flowing sculptural form from an iconic ballet performance
2021-01-21 15:31:18
Field Notes Winter Edition 2020
99,999 unique generative snowflakes for the winter limited edition of Field Notes
2020-12-02 15:31:18
Trend Micro Perspectives XDR
Data-born generative motion piece for Trend Micro event
2020-10-23
Choreographic
AI Driven Motion Studies
2020-07-23
Trend Micro Perspectives
Data born artwork with a musical motif
2020-06-01
Black Mamba’s Revenge
Using AI to visualise the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol. One
2020-04-05 15:31:18
House of Cards LIDAR
2020-03-04 20:27:54
The Process
Limited Edition Screen Print
2020-01-05 10:23:32
Silent State
2019-10-25
Manifesto for Myself
2019-09-01 12:16:23
Here, Around and Beyond
Visualising Conference Attendees
2019-06-10 13:32:07
Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019 Titles and Graphic Design
Animation and graphic design for German creative festival
2019-05-13
The Art of Cybersecurity
Beauty from cybersecurity data for Trend Micro
2019-03-04
Vivobarefoot
2018-12-19 22:41:25
Morfff
The letter holder made from code and concrete
2018-11-02 12:18:32
Pluralsight Skill Sets
1.3 million assessments visualised as clusters of skills
2018-08-30 13:02:42
Embraer Data Streams
LED and AR installation at the Farnborough Airshow for Embraer
2018-07-16 09:00:30
Notes to Myself
2018-05-01 15:43:43
Plastic Player 2
An open-source analog interface for digital music
2018-01-30
Amongst The Leaves
Nature inspired physical data objects
2018-01-09
Carefully Everywhere Descending
Real-time data installation for PricewaterhouseCoopers' London Data Lab
2017-10-11
Generative Chairs
An AI creates over 2000 impressions of modernist chairs
2017-10-03 14:28:19
Every Year a Sound, Every Sound a Shape
Sound visualisations for legendary sound production house
2017-06-15
Fermata
Visualising interactions in and around a building
2017-03-29
Platts 360 Visualisation
Visualising 3000 shipping routes
2017-02-20
Plastic Player
A Playful Analog Interface for Digital Music
2016-12-30
Now Boarding
2016-12-01
The Art of Transactions
2016-10-13
Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
2016-08-08
City Density as Type
2016-07-12
Flip Remote version 4
2016-04-19
FITC Tokyo Identity
2016-02-13
Local Murmurs
Story-sharing installation for Airbnb at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
2016-01-22
Starcount
2016-01-11
The Shape of Data
2015-12-01
Big Softie Wireless Remote
2015-08-09
Exploring Deep Cyberspace
2015-06-26
The Invisible Infrastructure
2015-06-12
Project Patterns
2015-06-08
Flippin' Big Remote
2015-04-19
States of Mind
2015-03-06
Majestic Landscapes
2015-02-23
Somewhere Amongst The Trees
2015-02-22
Doris Le Bot
Unique generative creatures made from tweets
2015-01-27
Six Monkeys
Physical interactions with email
2014-09-08
Beautiful Game, Beautiful Data
2014-08-01
Breathe
2014-06-27
Moments in Music
2014-04-22
Data as Object
2014-03-08
Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
2013-12-19
Breeze
2013-12-13
Almost Famous
2013-12-06
Box of Tweets
2013-07-12
OFFF Twitter Archive
2013-06-06
Mechanical Fuzzy Weather Machine
2013-05-23
To Be Today for the RSC
2013-01-17
Objects Around A Centre Point
2012-12-31
Dot Dot Dot Exhibition
A Solo Exhibition on Design with Data
2012-12-07
EE - Digital City Portraits
Commission by EE for the launch of 4G
2012-12-07
Ben Folds Five Poster
2012-11-28
TEDx Utrecht
2012-11-26
James Bond Kills
2012-10-08
Now Next Later
2012-07-29
The Happiness Machine
2012-03-01
Lissajous Iteration Print
2012-03-01
TedX Manchester
2012-02-01
Notes on Design
2012-01-01
Popa
2011-11-01
Between the Ones and Zeroes
2011-05-01
Fun with Lasers
2011-05-01
Memento Bricks
2011-05-01
Whilst I Was Sleeping
2011-05-01
Object for the Display of Memories
2011-03-01
Memory Box
2011-03-01
The Grammar of Interactive Design
2010-10-01
Talk-Action=Shit Letterpress Print
A personal mantra
2010-08-01
The Accidental News Explorer
2010-06-01
Superformula
2010-05-01
Two Paths in the Same Space
2010-05-01
Connections
2010-04-01
iota
2010-03-26
MoviePeg
2010-03-10
Elena
2009-11-19
Yuugen
2009-09-01
Apollo 11 Transcript Static
2009-08-01
Dopplr Doodles
2009-06-01
Play Stop Go
2009-03-01
COFA Talk Online
2009-02-01
Screenshot Diary
2009-01-01
Dynamic Identity System
2008-08-01
A Study in Time and Place
2008-08-01
100 Feelings Felt
2008-06-01
Doodlebuzz
2008-03-01
Dot Dot Dot Lecture New York
2008-03-01
Analog In, Digital Out
My thoughts on interaction design
2007-10-01
Vogel Spiral Navigation
2007-03-01
Collision Engine Display System
2007-02-01
Audio Edit
2005-05-01
Atari Hardware Hacks
2005-03-01
Lissajous Spirals
2005-03-01
Typographic Monk
2005-03-01
Play-Doh as Interface
Using an analog material to control digital media
2005-01-01
Nothing There
2004-07-01
Slit Scan: Don't Look Now
2004-03-01
Snow Globe Memories
2004-03-01
Sonic Painting
2004-03-01
Cinema Redux
Creating a visual fingerprint of a movie
2004-01-01
Postcard from New York
2003-05-01
Hitchcock Filmography
2002-05-01
Drag Slide Fade
2001-07-01
Proximity Based Sound
2001-05-01
New Masters of Flash
2000-07-01
Chomsky Space
2000-02-01
Psycho Studio
1999-03-01
Saul Bass on the Web
1998-06-01