Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…

A virtual world painted with letters and words.

A PCB flute with custom hardware and firmware.

 As a machine learning engineer, I love a good parameterization that represents something interesting, like a creative coding sketch, …

 A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.

A CNC machine built from scratch for milling Chinese seals and software for computationally generated seal designs.

3 quick projects using reaction-diffusion 

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …

I have been thinking about all the time I spend on the computer and how much the interfaces that we use feel so familiar to us. I thought t…

Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…

Where is the boundary between internal and external?  This series of animations serves as the title for an exhibition of the installat…

Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…

I made three cloud lights for an exhibition at Artechouse as part of Zach Lieberman's show Future Sketches  / Code Poems as part …

FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.

 Recreating John Maeda's "Design By Numbers" programming environment in JavaScript Try Online    |    GitHub

Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…

Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…

This project transforms light into glass sculptures.  I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

​In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…

​This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes.  All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…

This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…

 Semi-Realistic Rotary Experiences is a set of six simulations of real life scenarios involving the gesture of rotating thin…

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…

 Do you work with graphics? Do you often find that an earlier version of your sketch looked more appealing? But then there's no way to…

( Or, How to Pretend You Can Dance)

(Or, How to Find an Equation for Every Picture)

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

Finger Talk is a small experiment Future Sketches has been working on related to gestural computation. What does it mean to have code you c…

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…