Brendan Dawes
The Art of Form and Code

This site is an ongoing archive of my work. I use generative processes involving machine learning, code and data to create objects which exist digitaly, physically and sometimes both.

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Represented by Gazelli Art House.

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News / Mar 1 2023 / Presentation of new work Persian Dreams at Art Dubai 2023

Process / The Swan

Passengers BCN
Physical sculptures created from Barcelona airport passenger numbers during COVID
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Passengers BER
Revealing the silence of the pandemic through Berlin's passenger traffic
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Press Any Key To Escape
Real-time patterns inspired by a former work-life
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Three Steps Forward
A collaboration with Jazz pianist Emmet Cohen
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Infinite Glimpses
Generating infinite compositions from a month of desktop screen captures
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16-Bit Machine Dreams
The video game trilogy concludes
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Digital Baroque: La Primavera
Baroque inspired digital sculpture
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Passengers LHR
Second in the Passengers series
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Passengers SZX
The Pandemic As Seen Through Airport Passenger Traffic
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8-Bit Machine Dreams
8-bit video console games as sculptural souvenirs
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Satellites
Algorithmic sculptures born from the Apollo 11 moon landing transcript
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Moments
Visualising moments in history captured on film, television or video
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The Opponents
Digital sculptures formed from the 1994 arcade fighting game Tekken
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The Swan
Creating a flowing sculptural form from an iconic ballet performance
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Trend Micro Perspectives XDR
Data-born generative motion piece for Trend Micro event
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Choreographic
AI Driven Motion Studies
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Trend Micro Perspectives
Data born artwork with a musical motif
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Here, Around and Beyond
Visualising Conference Attendees
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Pluralsight Skill Sets
1.3 million assessments visualised as clusters of skills
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Embraer Data Streams
LED and AR installation at the Farnborough Airshow for Embraer
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Amongst The Leaves
Nature inspired physical data objects
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Carefully Everywhere Descending
Real-time data installation for PricewaterhouseCoopers' London Data Lab
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Platts 360 Visualisation
Visualising 3000 shipping routes
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Cancer Research UK Collaborations
Visualisation for Cancer Research UK Research Annual 2016
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Kennedy
An iPhone app for capturing the now
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Dot Dot Dot Exhibition
A Solo Exhibition on Design with Data
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