The studio, transformed into a gallery.
Pixels2GenAI is an exhibition by software developers creating computer art. The works on view use equations, algorithms, and AI models to generate images and installations — exploring the space between hand-programmed images, the aesthetics of mathematical rules, and AI as an art-making tool.
At the end of March 2026, the office of IT studio Academis transformed into a gallery for two days — an opening evening for invited guests, then a day open to the public.
Exhibition I · March 27, 2026.
A one-day group show co-organised with Academis · Kristian Rother. Six artists. Printed work on the walls; code-driven installations on screens and projection.
Six artists, one office, three days.
The exhibition opened on March 27 at 6pm for press and invited guests, and remained open for the general public on March 28 from 10am to 4pm. The works moved between two registers: printed pieces hung as objects, and code-driven installations running live on screens and projection.
Artists · six on view.
Six software developers, working across hand-programmed images, the aesthetics of mathematical rules, and AI as an art-making tool.
Plates · printed works.
Pieces that resolved into a single frame and went onto paper. 5 works shown below — click a plate to enlarge.
Prints shown here are by Burak Kağan Yılmazer. Works by Sara Maras, Alexander Hendorf, Hansu Kim, Maris Niewenhuis, and Ewa Rother were on view during the exhibition and will be added once consent for online reproduction is collected from each artist.
Animated · installations on view.
Code-driven pieces that ran live during the exhibition. Stills below; the source repositories are linked from each card. Hovering the Neural-Mycelium card cross-fades to a second state; the other two captures are pending.
▶ hover Neural-Mycelium · hebbian + physarum
GPU-thermal-driven slime-mold simulation · liveJones' (2010) Physarum sense-rotate-deposit model running over a Hebbian network, driven live by the host GPU's thermal, clock, power, and utilization metrics. The machine renders its own metabolic state as visible growth.
Selection Pressure · emergent flocking
Reynolds boid model + tournament-selection evolutionary algorithm · liveAround 800 boid stars evolve survival strategies under gravitational predation. Reynolds' 1987 boid model (separation, alignment, cohesion) coupled with an evolutionary algorithm and quorum sensing — the swarm learns by losing members.
Dissolution · noise → portrait
DDPM forward process + ControlNet · live webcamWebcam frames dissolve into Gaussian noise under the DDPM forward process and re-emerge as ControlNet-guided anime portraits. Drawn from curriculum modules 12.3.2 (ControlNet) and 11.2.3 (Face detection).
Documents.
The poster and printed materials produced for the exhibition.
Co-organised with Academis.
The exhibition was run jointly with Kristian Rother and Academis, who provided the venue at Steinmetzstrasse 40 and the curatorial framing that connected the works on view.
The exhibition is part of the wider Pixels2GenAI project — a Master's thesis exploring how learners move from the basics of pixel manipulation to generative AI. The works shown here are produced by artists working independently; the project provides the shared frame.