Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation x Blanton Museum of Art brings together leading digital artists Refik Anadol, Daniel Canogar, Madeline Hollander, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, teamLab, Siebren Versteeg, Leo Villareal, and Marina Zurkow, among others, to explore what happens when code and data become the raw materials of art.
In Run the Code, contemporary artists harness algorithms and generative AI models to create powerful, thought-provoking works that investigate nature, art history, internet culture, and human behavior. Drawing from highlights of the Thoma Foundation’s Digital and Media Art Collection, the exhibition transforms streams of digital information into immersive sensory experiences, ranging from interactive systems that respond to a viewer’s movement or presence to custom software that generates ever-evolving images in real time. Across these installations, landscapes reimagine our relationship to the natural world, historical paintings and cultural archives are remixed through machine processes, and algorithms emerge not just as technical tools but as a creative medium that raises urgent questions about what it means to make art in a data-driven age.
