Category: Generative

The Book of Sand

This Bitsy art game is a retelling of the 1975 short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Read excerpts from the tale as you navigate passages from the mysterious tome it depicts. Each…

Text-Image

This collection explores the results of asking a text-based Large Language Model (LLM) to generate ASCII pictures in response to a range of simple prompts. In subverting their…

Machine Visions

This text is a catalogue of outputs derived from a speculative investigation into machine vision systems. In this investigation, an image synthesising AI (Stable Diffusion V2) was used…

Haiku Garden

In this slow Bitsy art game, you are invited to spend a couple of minutes in a garden that changes with the time of day and the passing seasons, reading generative haikus…

Lines of Flight

Can the act of gliding also perform as an act of writing? The sweeping movements of a glider aircraft through the sky already create circular traces in GPS…

Dark Mode

Dark Mode is a minimal meditation on the rogue-like / adventure game genre, stripped to its bare essentials: a labyrinth, varied “encounters”, and numerical stats. What is the…

A City is Not a Computer

This Bitsy art game invites you to join a team of human operators in a city-wide automated control centre, scanning through a synthetic map of ‘tasks’ generated by the system,…

The Garden of Forking Paths

This Bitsy art game is a whimsical remake of the famous short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Explore the divergent paths of the labyrinthine garden, while leafing through cut up…

After Life

This Bitsy art game invites you to explore and meditate on a now dormant universe of cellular automata, ala Conway’s Game of Life. This piece leaves you free to wander the “ashes”…