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Chris Coleman

@digitalcoleman

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Artist, Director of ACCAD at OSU, OS Contributor

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In mid September @clinic_os_arts and @accadatosu co-hosted the Creative Coding Open House with @processingorg and @madewithvvvv as part of @arselectronica !! For 5 days we invited the festival visitors and general public to stop by and try out creative coding or connect with fellow code based artists. We talked a lot about open-source tools for creativity and had several hundred visitors stop by and hang out. It was really special to have the space for conversation and learning amidst the amazing artworks. Thanks to everyone who helped or participated! taken in Hauptplatz Linz by @digitalcoleman

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6 days ago

@devinsanchezcurry by @digitalcoleman

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6 days ago

I have had the pleasure of showing with Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman before, and I am always impressed by his thoughtful, meticulous work. Here he creates a speculative printed calendar with images generated on a homespun AI model trained on extant paintings from one of his early 20th-century ancestors. See the entire set here:

https://ebay.io/m/1IDGtF

Title: Genereal Electric 1938 Calendar
Description:
H.M. Mott-Smith was a physicist for General Electric who helped shape the early trajectory of the American industrial century. His son, also named H.M. Mott-Smith, visualized that same progress as a painter producing promotional illustrations for the company. Learning that this painter was my great-great-grand uncle, and recognizing our shared identity as creators, sparked a quiet obsession. I began scouring eBay to reclaim these artifacts, exclusively acquiring vintage calendars that featured his specific illustrations. Over the last 4 years I have been buying whole calendars alongside severed, cut-out images saved by forgotten admirers.

I have digitized the collected brushstrokes as a deeply personal dataset. I trained a custom LoRA on his illustrations using the Qwen open-weight AI model, running the computations on my home computer. The resulting work is a calendar that uses H.M. Mott-Smith's original aesthetic to imagine an alternate trajectory for early 20th-century America. Through these synthesized images, the project suggests a different path for corporate titans like GE, one rooted in sustainability and ecological harmony rather than unchecked extraction.

Conceptually, this work is less an act of historical revisionism and more an exercise in hope. It is a way of looking backward with fondness, choosing to extract and preserve the best in our individual ancestors even as we acknowledge and critique the broader problems of their eras. By offering this piece for sale on eBay, I am reinserting our family art back into the exact same ecosystem where I first found it.

Item Details:
The item for sale is a physical copy of the new calendar. It consists of 12 pages and is printed in full color at approximately 11" x 20". by @digitalcoleman

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11 days ago

🎂Celebrating Processing’s 25th Anniversary at @arselectronica was a reminder that Processing is all about the people.

This year’s festival brought 125,000 visits across 40 venues and among them, a community that came together to celebrate 25 years of open-source creative code.

At its core, Processing is both a software and a community, woven together by millions of creators and hundreds of dedicated contributors across all six continents.

The diverse perspectives that strengthen and enrich the Processing ecosystem would not have been possible without your participation.

Thank you for continuing to play a part in Processing’s history.

#arselectronica26 #futurebegins #negotiatinghumanity taken in Ars Electronica by @digitalcoleman

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18 days ago

We're live. In order of appearance: Peter Burr, @gan.tttt, @gentle_virus, @chootka, @heyneff, @feedmediaart, @exonemo, @digitalbeing, @devharlan, @alexa_crwrs, @konstantina00mavridou, @zsoltfm, @digitalcoleman, @motomichi_nakamura, @yifeihe_

WYSIWYG (And Other Things You Can Buy on eBay). A show about materiality, embodiment, and platform polemics. Opening 09/10/26 on eBay.

Participating Artists: Benton C Bainbridge • Peter Burr • Chris Coleman • Alexa Crouwers • Bridget DeFranco • Exonemo • Mark Fingerhut • Matthew D. Gantt • Sarah Grant • Dev Harlan • Yifei He • Konstantina Mavridou • Zsolt Mesterhazy • Michael Neff • Motomichi Nakamura • Taezoo Park

WYSIWYG is a group show asking artists to consider how digital art is embodied in material and infrastructure. By placing digital artworks for sale on eBay, the show also exposes how platforms mediate and produce objects they purport only to sell. Some artists embody their work in a shippable object: a USB stick, a desktop PC, or a microcontroller. Others hijack the eBay listing itself as the work's material. At both extremes, the show argues digital art is never immaterial, but entangled in a global economy of material extraction and platform capital.

https://www.ebay.com/str/wysiwyggroup

https://wysiwyg-groupshow.dfos.com by @digitalcoleman

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24 days ago

@devharlan curated and organized this stellar lineup of artists for a group exhibition on eBay. We each tackle the challenge in a different way and it is worth going thru all the listings in detail… by @digitalcoleman

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25 days ago

Thanks to @nicolassassoon and @aitso and @5tr4n0 for making it happen and to @daniellekingart for curating me into the show once again! by @digitalcoleman

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a month ago

Got our @feralfile Display mounted and it looks great. Currently playing our huge collection of @lorna.mills in a random playlist. Lovely to live with the work this way… by @digitalcoleman

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3 months ago

Recent acquisitions - new theory book including @lawrencelek essay, the beautiful @travess book from @vetroeditions , the annual artwork from @holo.mg by @mrprudence , and a delightful fan emerging from the @newinc crew @uaad.art by @digitalcoleman

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3 months ago

Made some art today. Plotted on my @bantamtools Art Machine. by @digitalcoleman

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3 months ago

Recieved our copy of this fantastic new book capturing the work of subRosa in context with other great cyber feminist work. Full of insights about their projects (and lots of old pictures of @laleh_mehran !). by @digitalcoleman

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4 months ago

Celebrating some of our art collection today. Such a treat to be surrounded by beautiful and complex ideas! by @digitalcoleman

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5 months ago