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Pixel Rugs by @travess / @vetroeditions

Available at @artverseparis

Pixel Rugs by @travess / @vetroeditions

Available at @artverseparis

Travess Smalley
06_23_26_Pixel_Rug_01_RISO, 2026
Risograph, six colors
17 × 11 in (43.2 × 27.9 cm)

Domtar Cougar Digital Smooth Natural, 65 lb. Cover (176 gsm)

Open Edition

Travess Smalley
06_23_26_Pixel_Rug_01_RISO, 2026
Risograph, six colors
17 × 11 in (43.2 × 27.9 cm)

Domtar Cougar Digital Smooth Natural, 65 lb. Cover (176 gsm)

Open Edition by @travess

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@travess explores the collapse between vector graphics, software layers, and physical printmaking. Smalley treats digital canvas manipulation and physical collage as a continuous medium, producing works that challenge where the screen ends and the physical object begins.

Ghost in the Thread: Glitch as a Semantic Space Until 16 October

Inquiries: contact@artverse.fr

Photos by: @romaindarnaud by @travess

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By @vetroeditions: “Pixel Rugs” by @travess reas

Now available on vetroeditions.com 💫 by @travess

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11 days ago

Ghost in the Thread; Glitch as a Semantic Space

Currently on view at ArtVerse Gallery, Paris.

The exhibition explores the glitch as a semantic space: a fertile, liminal territory born from technological disruption, where new language, meaning and poetic possibilities emerge.

With the participation of LoVid, Travess Smalley, Chepertom, Rune Brink
And work by Nam June Paik
Curated by Valentina Buzzi

On view until October 16th
For inquiries: contact@artverse.fr

Photos by: @romaindarnaud taken in Artverse Gallery by @travess

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✨ Such a beautiful gift, thank you once again @travess 🙏 by @travess

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22 days ago

Just opened the "Ghost in the Thread group show at @artverseparis featuring the artists: Nam June Paik, LoVid, Travess Smalley, Chepertom, Rune Brink.

Open until October 18th at 5bis rue de Beauce 75003 Paris

“The glitch is a momentum: that moment that makes you pivot and reflect... an object slides from a normal operation into something different—a powerful confusion that forces the user to reevaluate their understanding of media.”

— Rosa Menkman, The Glitch Moment(um), 2011

Long before silicon microchips, computing was born on a weaver’s loom. Joseph Marie Jacquard’s 1804 automated loom used binary punch cards to guide warp and weft threads, establishing that the digital grid of pixel resolution and the tactile matrix of textiles share the exact same structural DNA. Riffing on the “ghost in the machine,” Ghost in the Thread explores how the ephemeral, glowing, and glitching code of digital signals is bound into physical and phygital materiality.

The exhibition traces an intergenerational arc beginning with Nam June Paik’s seminal 1994 work, DO NOT WATCH TV. By manipulating cathode-ray signals, Paik turned broadcast culture into a site of active disruption, laying the foundation for glitch aesthetics. LoVid extends this legacy, translating analog video synthesis and raw electrical currents into a vibrant multi-channel installation that renders the hidden digital ghost tangible.

A new generation of artists continues this fluid movement between code and physical space. Chepertom converts pixel drawings and algorithmic glitches into custom Jacquard tapestries, demonstrating that a digital pixel and a woven knot are functionally identical. Travess Smalley collapses vector graphics and physical printmaking, treating software manipulation and collage as a single continuous medium. Rune Brink examines digital nostalgia and low-resolution screen architecture, bringing pixelated anomalies into dialogue with physical space. by @travess

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23 days ago

Some details of Risograph print editions by summer 2026 RisoLAB Artist in Residence @travess ~come out to the Print Slam next Friday at the RisoLAB to see a selection of the work he made over the last eight weeks! by @travess

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3 months ago

Pixel Rugs

#generativeart #bookstagram #digitalart #books #codeart by @travess

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4 months ago

“Pixel Rugs” by Travess Smalley

Now available on vetroeditions.com 💫 by @travess

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5 months ago

Excited to share that the Pixel Rugs monograph, published by @vetroeditions , is launching this Saturday at @movingimagenyc . I’ll be giving a talk and signing copies of the book. Printed using Quadrifluox, an experimental fluorescent-ink process, the pages translate RGB color into pigment. The afternoon also includes a performance by Edgar Fabián Frías with four local Indigenous artists and a performance lecture by OONA. Supported by @artontezos Free, but RSVP required — link in bio. taken in Museum of the Moving Image by @travess

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5 months ago

✦ Open Worlds: An Afternoon of Digital Art Encounters ✦

Spanning talks, performances, and a book signing across three distinct artist practices during Frieze Week.

Beginning with a book launch by Travess Smalley, followed by a live performance organized by Edgar Fabián Frías featuring local Indigenous artists, and then a performance and talk by OONA.

The event ends with drinks, snacks, and casual conversations with the artists.

🗓16 May, 1:30 – 6 PM EST
📍 Museum of the Moving Image

Free with RSVP, link in bio

This event is organized by MoMI and the Tezos Foundation as part of their annual partnership. taken in New York City by @travess

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5 months ago

New on Are.na Editorial**

Artists Travess Smalley (@travess ) and Daniel Lefcourt (@d_lefcourt ) on graphic notation and the various methods used over time for visualizing sound.

https://www.are.na/editorial/visualizing-sound by @travess

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