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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Prairie (1999) Printed at Cone Editions Press I'm happy to tell you that the Victoria and Albert Museum is acquiring seven of my prints and drawings, from 1979 through 2025. See: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCZHP7 Contact me to see the work on Sept. 19 in Chicago before I send it off. #drawing #print #art

A quilt-like pattern of abstract roses, rivers, dots and leaves—but thay are all really just shapes, generated from a tiling pattern and a set of rules. A dark blue-green border surrounds the central area, where earth tones predominate as a background to the figure described above.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Morning and evening, Santa Ana de Pusa, Spain: 1. Camino a la presa, 2. Encinos . #Spain #campos #country #scruboak #morning #evening

Morning, raking light shines on dry grass, down a slope with boulders and scrub oak.

Evening, two large scrub oak trees in a fallow, dry field, appear over the verge of a dirt road, overgrown with brambles and tall grass.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In the Thicket of Ghosts (2026) Iterated number patterns written to a space-filling curve plus shape recognition and my choice of colors. . #algorithmic #pattern #art #codeart made w #Processing

The image is composed of 8x8 blocks of pixels in mostly dark colors, except for the pale blue-green "ghosts", raggedy aggregations of pixels with interior holes that might be eyes or ears or noses or other orifices. Deep in the backgrounds, a large serpentine cluster of dark pixels runs from upper left to lower right, where is seems to coagulate in the lower right corner. Green crosses and yellow squares populate the foreground, with the ghosts. Swaths of blue and brown blocks blend to gray in the background. Reddish brown irregular shapes, connected at the corners, accompany the ghosts. Everything seems to float in a twilight space.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Argosy 213b (2026) Rhythmic patterns written to a space-filling curve plus shape extraction. . #algorithmic #pattern #art #codeart made w #Processing

Mosaic of shapes formed of 8x8 pixel squares, with dark shapes floating over more extensive light shapes. The dark mosaic blocks combine to create complex shapes with staircase-like sections and simpler shapes, some of which are colored in blue or purple. The light shapes are equally complex, but blend together as a background for the dark shapes. Patterns are laid out on diagonals that become apparent when you step away from the image.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's 2002 novel Bleeding Edge.

Image of white text on black background, which reads:

“Igor says you saved them a shitload of money.”
“You think that ‘them’ includes Igor himself?”
“He’d be too embarrassed to tell anybody. What was going on?”
“Some kind of pyramid racket.”
“Oh. Something a little different.”
“You mean for Igor? like he has some history with—”
“No, I meant late capitalism is a pyramid racket on a global scale, the kind of pyramid you do human sacrifices up on top of, meantime getting the suckers to believe it’s all gonna go on forever.”

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Like a Day in June (2026) Seamless video loop made with PixelAudio's WaveSynth color organ #algorithmic #animation #art made with #Processing

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

From Thomas Lewton's review of Jenny Durant's book Bitter Honey:

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The main culprit in all of this is the almond industry, argues Durant. When selling honey became unprofitable, beekeepers turned instead to the booming California almond industry, which is worth $4 billion a year in exports. Each February, 99 per cent of domesticated bees in the US are trucked to the state to pollinate almond trees. Yet almonds are just the latest in a long line of industrialised crops that maximise yields and profits while minimising ecological diversity and resilience.

Meanwhile, the fossil fuels that power global food systems make life harder still for bees. Placing bees in warehouse-size refrigerators was a strategy to deal with irregular seasons and climate extremes, but arguably just adds more plasters to a deep wound.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Four stars, One star (2026) Irregular grids generated from #random regular #noise The stars are an accidental result of the angles used to generate the grid. . #algorithmic #art #codeart made with #Processing

Irregular shapes created by five sets of lines separated by 72 degree angles. Four stars appear in the design. The underlying grid is mostly evident in the alignment of shapes. There are four colors, red, green, blue, yellow, for filling shapes, all overlaid with deep blue lines.

Irregular shapes created by five sets of lines separated by 72 degree angles. One 5-pointed yellow star appears high up in the design. The shapes, in deep blue violet, dark sky blue, lime green and scarlet are held together by bright yellow lines that radiate beyond and into the shapes. You might see a dancer, tilted to the right, about to spin around.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Three Noisy Grids: 987_2146_768_960_02 + 987_2146_768_960_03 + 987_2146_768_960_01 Recent work (2026) made with #Processing #algorithmic #art #bluenoise #random #grid #codeart

An irregular grid generated with random regular noise, horizontal and vertical lines restricted to small deviations, pink and pale red violet fill of polygons.

An irregular grid generated with random regular noise, horizontal lines restricted to small deviations, vertical lines more open to vary, medium warm gray and pale blue green fill of polygons.

An irregular grid generated with random regular noise, horizontal and vertical lines allowed large deviations, washed out school bus yellow and lemon yellow fill of polygons.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A Report from the Field (2026) Irregular grid from blue noise point distribution, made with #Processing #algorithmic #art #chance #random #noise #bluenoise #grid

Never quite at right angles, fine broken blue-black horizontal and vertical lines create an irregular grid of closed shapes filled with pale gray-green. A straw-colored ground surrounds the outline of the grid.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Workshop at Hairpin Art Center 2800 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd FL March 10, 2026, 7:00pm Signals and Pixels I present the latest developments of my open source software library for Processing, PixelAudio. #code #art #algorithmicart #intermedia #music

Screenshot of PixelAudio example sketch GesturePlayground. A display window with various brushstroke-like lines overlaid on a rainbow-hued, pixelated pattern. Off to the side, a GUI control palette with "Granular Synthesis" on its title bar.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Argosy Pattern 108f, state 3 (2026) #algorithmic #art made with #Processing Rhythmic pixel/signal patterns mapped to a piecewise #fractal by software and selectively colored in an image editing application.

A complex pattern of many small to medium-sized blocky shapes fills the rectangular area of this image. Though the shapes are angular and pixelated—the smallest ones are squares or L-shapes—the overall impression is one of organic growth or flow. Most of the image is worked out in light shades of green, blue and tan, but flock of shapes reminiscent of ragged clouds in darker colors—purple, sienna, deep blue and green with narrow narrow red shapes as accents—cuts across from the top left corner to the bottom edge.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Azure Voyage: In One Slow Azure Voyage Embrace Resonant Heartache Storyboard Flashback Simplify Wounded Memory Dance Free Now Go (2026) #algorithmic #art #digitalprint #unreadable #geometric #typeface #textart #concretepoetry

A stepped diamond shape in pale parchment color with black and red lines arranged seemingly as a text that's not-quite-readable in rows across it floats in an azure sky anchored to a slate gray floor.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My Own Boot Squad Unpack Culture Adroitly Dismantle Gatekeeper Colonialism, State 2 (2026) #algorithmic #art #digital #print #geometric #font #design

A pyramid or ziggurat-shaped composed of black and yellow text (hazard tape colors) in an unreadable font (IgnoBlox) reposes just below the low horizon of a featureless dark beige plain, limned against a featureless slate blue sky. The text reads, as one descends the pyramid: "My Own Boot Squad Unpack Culture Adroitly Dismantle Gatekeeper Colonialism".

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

History Fascism Amnesia (2024) IgnoBlox Font on a background generated with the WaveSynth algorithm. The font is designed to be difficult to read, especially when all characters are bumped up against each other. #algorithmic #art #digital #pattern #text

$In Safety Yellow, the words "History, Fascism, Amnesia" are stacked one upon the other, reading top to bottom. The background is a complex pattern, seemingly organic, but with a fractal or filigree feel.$

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18/12/2025

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

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For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Argosy Pattern 197a (2025) . #fractal #geometry #intermedia #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #code #codeart #pattern #evolving #process made with #PixelAudio library for #Processing

$A fractal maze of organic shapes composed of geometric tiles. Within each different shape, modular blocks in complementary colors identical in brightness blend together. The colors are muted because of their complementarity, but often intense in their saturated color. There is a armature of logic and chance underlying this image, but it's elusive.$

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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

From @talkingpointsmemo.com web page, another lie exposed. Undocumented immigrants do not receive govt healthcare. Also, they commit fewer crimes than the citizenry of the U.S. and evidence suggests their presence in the U.S. labor market is a plus. Truth is the first victim of authoritarianism.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I am convinced that the first violence, from which others spring, is violence towards truth. Even admitting the fallibility of witness, the biologically built-in erosion of memory, the errors a love of stories imposes on our species—even within the cloud of uncertainty my humanity imposes upon me—

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Argosy Pattern 183c Loss of information, erosion, residue #algorithmic #generative #codeart #code #art

On a background that at first appears a uniform gray color, but that reveals itself upon sustained looking to be desaturated shades of red, yellow, green and blue, bright rectangular flecks of color float, in deep blue, pink, and school bus yellow.

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Raymond Barlow @raymondbarlow.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Look into My Eyes! Saw-whet owl resting on two branches. Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Argosy Pattern 168b (2025) Created with software that I wrote, including the new PixelAudio library for #Processing: #digital #algorithmic #art #creativecode #codeart #patterns #fractals

$Small, brightly colored squares float over a background of large, staircase-edged, interlaced shapes in four colors: midnight blue, denim blue, slate, and straw. Symmetries abound, but are hidden along intricate fractal paths.$

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Argosy Pattern 147a (2025) #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #code #codeart #pattern #animation still frame, made with #Processing

$A fractal net with zigzag edges, built up with blended colors, where smaller geometric shapes pop out in bright yellow and red.$

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Argosy Pattern 138g, left, and Argosy Pattern 137a, right (2025) #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #code #codeart #pattern #animation still frame, made with #Processing

$Whirling geometric net patterns in red, blue, ocher and bone. A regular geometric grid lurks underneath, and within that, a fractal geometry of constant twists and turns.$ $A vertical pattern composed of square pixels, its right angle grid offset by diagonal alleys created by clusters of similar shapes. If you look long enough, it seems to move as the underlying fractal geometry emerges.$

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Argosy Pattern 142c state 5 (2025) #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #code #codeart #pattern #animation still frame, made with #Processing An image whose base material is generated with my PixelAudio library for Processing. I add colors to shapes in the generated image.

In the background, a sort of twisty 2D labyrinth, with thin dark walls and dark gray halls—five "windows" open within it to show paler color patterns, like a landscape glimpsed through storm clouds. Floating above, smaller geometric shapes in bright colors, including two acid yellow four-pointed whirling stars, mirror images of each other.

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Argosy Pattern 136d (2025) Illuminated manuscript with scattered punctuation, Made with the PixelAudio library for #Processing: #experiments in #algorithmic #art #pattern #animation #codeart #creativecoding #intermedia #digitalart

$Over a pale blue background, pale bands of color fill pixelated fractal shapes. Dark blue shapes—perhaps writing in an unknown language?—float upon the background, punctuated by smaller, blocky flecks of bright red.$

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

it's #nationalpoetrymonth -- here's 4 examples of RUTH ASAWA's text art (wow!)

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Ignotus Mago @ignotus-mago.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Argosy Pattern 136f (2025) Made with the PixelAudio library for #Processing #experiments in #algorithmic #art #pattern #animation #codeart #creativecoding #intermedia #digitalart

$A fractal labyrinth laid out along diagonals with two connected sections colored in darker and more saturated colors than the surrounding paths.$

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