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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".

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🎂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

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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

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#arselectronica

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Excited to share what I've been up to lately. WYSIWYG: a group show about materiality, embodiment, and platform polemics in digital art. Going live on eBay, September 10th.

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

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Thrilled to participate in RGBMTL (@rgb_mtl) as an artist-curator for the third year in a row! Thanks as always to the fab trio @aitso, @nicolassassoon, and @5tr4n0 for putting this incredible event together!

I’m so excited to share works by the amazing artists @mblehaut, @digitalcoleman, @littlecakeslives, @katiemorris.art, and @celikcerensu ✨

I’ll be at the event in Montreal so expect to see lots of photos and videos…

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Since I don’t do newsletters, here are some upcoming shows for this Fall with some of my life time friends, inspirations and comrades 🫶🏼

👾 artport: 25 Years of Internet Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, opening November 21, 2026.

artport: A History of Internet Art is organized by Christiane Paul (@paulc236), Curator of Digital Art, with David Lisbon (@_coach_dad), Curatorial Assistant, and Colin Brooks (@colinbooks), Head of Digital Development.

(P.S. I wish for every tech bro who found out about digital art through the NFT circus and then forgot about it, to go see this show. lol)

💾Still Unstable, V2 Lab, opening September 24, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

This September, V2_ celebrates 45 years with Still Unstable: three days of exhibitions, talks, interviews and live performances exploring the hidden systems that shape technological innovation today.

The programme brings together artists and thinkers including @_menkman 😍 , @arambartholl , @annaehrenstein , @morehshin , @knowbotiq , @kasiamolga , @ginevraarvenig , Andreas Broeckmann, Yuk Hui, wanpye , Annet Dekker, @joost.rekveld , Joana Chicau, Gökay Atabek, @marijnbril , @yaramekawei , @e_ptrs , @edwinvanderheide , @mari_mako_

💫Weaving Cosmologies, Skaftfell Art Center (@skaftfell) and Þula Gallery, Iceland, opening October 3, 2026.

My first exhibitions in Iceland curated by: Þórhildur Tinna Sigurðardóttir

🧞‍♀️🧞Morehshin Allahyari and Alireza Doostdar in Conversation, The Wexner Center of The Arts, OSU, October 29.

My dream of sharing the stage with @alirezadadocstobar finally becoming true!!! His book The Iranian Metaphysics felt like such a deep connection to the work I was doing at the time on myth and Jinn. So ever since we’ve been thinking, writing and collaborating on many projects.

This event is also made possible by a few years of scheming and planning with Illya Mousavijad @illyamousavijad, assistant professor of Art @theohiostateuniversity and my former professor and forever mentor @digitalcoleman.

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Ceria B. Teramore is haunting Venice.

I thought about what might happen
to a female spirit after it is exorcised.

I couldn’t stop thinking about @lynn.l.leeson 's Roberta Breitmore and how we could reframe haunting as hosting, as residing in another’s outline, as an act of feminist solidarity.

Thank you, dear @kn___studio for the images of her AR-body, half there, only visible via device.

The AR figure is part of the body of work »Cache of a Deleted Girl« in the exhibition »As If It Were There« on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, curated by @anika for @thesecondguess and @made.by.oona. Thanks so much for your incredible work and challeging me to think about presence and perception in AR.

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Working across sculpture, video, creative coding, and interactive installation, @digitalcoleman moves between physical and digital worlds. His work has been exhibited in 25+ countries including Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, Finland, the U.A.E., Italy, Germany, France, China, the UK, Latvia, and across North America. He is a Professor of Art & Technology and the Director of the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at The Ohio State University.

@digitalcoleman shares a few spots in Denver that reflect the city’s art and cultural signals.

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➤ Threaded Retracing

Derived from a project about memory and path making, I asked AI to imagine more perspectives from a still of my work Threaded Tracing. From those perspectives I asked AI to create a model of a forgotten memory and this is what it produced. From a broken lidar capture in an airport of a journey I have long since forgotten comes this fragment, perhaps more true than any other part of that moment in time.

• @digitalcoleman .▲

● objkt.com/galleries/accomparts
2025 Computer Art Auction House © #eth #btc #xtz

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"CSF DATA Integration"

"Color, Sound and Form`s Data Integration combined in one stream of digital process. Stochastic system of generated form is equipped with sound oscillators based on sine wave functions"

Code is published on EditArt.xyz
Recorded generative iterations in the video co-created by @pifragile , @digitalcoleman , @ileivoivm

#generative #art #abstract #parametric
#p5js #js #p5sound #frontend #javascript
#procedural #oscillator #synth #motion
#animation #code #onchain #nft #tezos

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Sympoeisis exhibition at the Shot Tower Gallery opened on Friday. Thank you to all the artists and organizers for bringing this hopeful, collaborative, world-building show into existence! A few pics here, more to come.

1. Emma Kline of Living Art and Ecology Lab, cutting the Sympoeisis cake @jeangreen.art

2. @jiarasha preparing for dance performance

3. @digitalcoleman

4. @genefelice76

5. @hye.yeon.nam

6. @nicolecondonshih

7. @laleh_mehran

8. @ken.rinaldo

9. Diane Willow’s lichen columns in foreground, with @doosungyoo @hye.yeon.nam and @ken.rinaldo

10. Juror @amy_youngs Curator@doosungyoo and Artist @ken.rinaldo

Show runs through Dec 11, go see it!

Thank you to Global Arts + Humanites Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange for funding our Arts Creation Grant, “Learning Lichens”.

@ecoart.osu @theshottowergallery @ascatosu #lichenlikers #aertandscience #ecoart #symbiosis #columbusmakesart

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