Contact: geoffdavis5 AT gmail com
My art is exhibited internationally and is in the Computer Arts Archive CAA, UK; Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz, Austria; the Franke Foundation Collection, Germany; The National Museum of Computing TNMOC, Bletchley Park, UK; the Le Random collection; and with many international collectors.
Does not include illustrated books and multimedia, for those see Author Geoff Davis site, or my music.
Large scale generative piece that is animated, and ends with a still image (unless in loop modes).
Novel with illustrations, and animated generative art.
My new novel out late 2025, now with the publisher at the editing stage.
"When an unnatural disaster strikes, Samantha must navigate a transformed world with her new adopted family and Botz robot companions. Their chance for escape lies in the luxury orbital habitats above, but her decision to leave her volatile son behind with a hacked military robot unleashes chaos that threatens everything."
There is a generative animated grid artwork inspired by the text. A still from it was exhibited at the Computer Arts Society CAS Exhibition 2023.
Generative animations on surface of cube shape, video animations with music. Colab Patryk Jaworski. First image is from Spatial VR gallery
Programmable animated filters that transform images into animations with large pixel shapes.
Short art film about the London Film Makers Coop LFMC, London Video Arts LVA, alternative gallery (B2, Diorama, clubs, NeTWork21 community TV) art scene in 1980s that I circulated in, that was the inspiration for Micro Arts 1984.
These are images I used to test emotional or mood bias in AI large language models (UAL CCI; presented at EVA London 2023). This uses a 'CLIP interrogator' for labelling images. I used a set of 'Robot Rorschach' images to measure the (simulated) emotion of the interactions. I also used the actual set to calibrate the experimental system. See also Geoff Davis AI Mood Bias
Digital paintings, from edited photographs.
I founded and made art for Micro Arts. Generative art, conceptual art, pixel art, text story generators, distributed on data cassettes (1984) and later Prestel net art (1985). There was also a print magazine, for publicity in galleries etc.
Data Cassette release MA1 "Abstract Originals" 1984" (still, from 7 generative animations)
Data Cassette release MA2 Various Unusual Events 1984 (stills, from 6 conceptual pieces, inc. first art designated and concerning Pixel Art with 'Minimal', and SCUM Manifesto feminist agit-prop 'Money Work System')
Minimal: First 'Pixel Art'. No-one else was specifically addressing the humble pixel at the time, pixelated art was 'state of the art' until it became a retro art genre later.
Although curators now say that being historically 'first' is not as important as telling a palatable marketable story to modern audiences.
"There is no well known tradition of pixel art that differentiated between the deliberate placement of pixels or the aestheticization of individual pixels in contrast to other forms of digital painting or digital art. For this reason, one could argue that pixel art was not a recognized medium or artform in the 1970s." Wikipedia.
Minimal after 1 pixel
Minimal after 45 pixels, each drawn after a 20 minute pause, so 2 years to fill the whole screen
SCUM Manifesto Money Work System Solanas computer animation
MA4 Story Generator 1985 (still from endless story generations)
All of the art and magazine content was put on Prestel in 1985, early net art, Prestel videotext was before the better known French Minitel system as used by Eduardo Kak.
My earliest surviving art. Abstracts painted around 1973. These use a bright colour scheme, which is perhaps why I took to making abstract art on the 1980s 8-bit colour micro computers in Micro Arts.
Hans Dehlinger & Geoff Davis, Berlin Dec 2023
Digital Arts Awards
HOFA / Phillips May 2025
Invited & shortlisted for the first annual HOFA / Phillips Digital Arts Awards 2025.
Curated by Elio D'Anna.
50 Years of Sonic Shock / Cabaret Voltaire [band]
Sheffield University Drama Studio, Sheffield (May 2025).
Multi-poster with interlocking design (1978).
Curator Jon Downing.
8-bit II Exhibition - Computer Art from the 1980s
Leicester, Jan - Mar 2025. Curator Sean Clark / CAA.
Reimagine Tomorrow 1954-2024 - Story Generator
Expanded Art/Konig, Heilig Geist, Essen, Nov 2024. Curator Anika Meier.
Generative Art Summit - Herbert W. Franke Foundation
Academy of Arts, Berlin, July 2024. Curator Anika Meier.
The Path to the Present, 1954-2024
Expanded Art, Berlin, Nov 2024. Curator Anika Meier.
Time Spectrum - Solo Exhibition
Expanded Art, Berlin, Dec 2023. Curator Anika Meier.
Thinking Machines: Presenting Pioneers, 1953-2023
Expanded Art, Berlin, June 2023. Curator Anika Meier.
Pattern City generative & AI art - CAS Exhibition
British Computer Society, London, July - Nov 2023.
3D Cube Art - Video animations with music
elementum, Zurich, 2023. Curator Georg Bak.
Computer Arts Society - 20 Prints from CAA 8-bit Exhibition
British Computer Society, London, 2021
8-bit Exhibition - Computer Arts Archive CAA
LCB Depot, Leicester, 2021. Curator Sean Clark / CAA.
London Film-Makers Co-op - Summer Show
London, 1985.
Micro Arts Group (Geoff Davis 1984) Micro Arts Group - Geoff Davis
Author Geoff Davis Books etc. by Geoff Davis
Facebook Facebook Geoff Davis
Metavista music - Patryk Jaworski & Geoff Davis Metavista music
Geoff Davis general site is at Geoff Davis.org
For more details, email geoffdavis5 AT gmail com
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