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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Produced for Use — Limited edition physical objects.

Represented by Gazelli Art House.

2025-09-19 12:16:35 Blog  

Heading back home from @aestheticamag Art Prize 2025

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

2025-09-24 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

Available to collect  

You Me and the Machine

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
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
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
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
Ultimate Services for your Happiness
Sci-Fi Book Inspired work for TRLab
2021-10-23 22:31:18
8-Bit Machine Dreams
8-bit video console games as sculptural souvenirs
2021-10-18 22:31:18
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
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
Black Mamba’s Revenge
Using AI to visualise the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol. One
2020-04-05 15:31:18