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

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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

In Harmony; The Five Boroughs
Digital sculptures created from New York population density data
2024-04-24 00:00:00
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
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
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
Digital Baroque: La Primavera
Baroque inspired digital sculpture
2021-12-10 22:31:18
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
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 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
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
Deloitte Cloud Computing
Visualising Deloitte's Cloud Computing Solution
2020-03-23 18:06:50
2020-03-04 20:27:54
Here, Around and Beyond
Visualising Conference Attendees
2019-06-10 13:32:07
The Art of Cybersecurity
Beauty from cybersecurity data for Trend Micro
2019-03-04
2018-12-19 22:41:25
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
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
2017-07-16
Fermata
Visualising interactions in and around a building
2017-03-29
Platts 360 Visualisation
Visualising 3000 shipping routes
2017-02-20
2016-12-29
2016-10-13
Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
2016-08-08
2016-07-12
2016-01-11
2015-12-01
2015-06-26
2015-06-12
2015-06-08
2015-03-06
2015-02-23
2015-02-22
Doris Le Bot
Unique generative creatures made from tweets
2015-01-27
2014-08-01
2014-06-27
2014-04-22
2014-03-08
Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
2013-12-19
2013-12-13
2013-11-28
2013-06-06
2013-01-17
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
2012-12-07
2012-11-26
2012-10-08
2012-07-29
2011-05-01
2011-03-01
2010-04-01
2009-08-01
2009-06-01
2008-06-01
2008-03-01
2007-05-01
2005-03-01
2004-07-01
2004-03-01
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2003-05-01
2002-05-01