SEA OF CODE

Kazuhiro Tanimoto

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Randomic Dimension
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Sea of code – Japan

Sea of Code is a JavaScript work that generates animation and sound as a flow linking past, present, and future. Simple 8-color forms drift, expand into richer color and organic complexity, and at times reveal gaps within the flow. Inspired by Hiroshi Kawano’s idea of computer art as autonomous beauty, it uses palette-free color generation and Markov-chain melodies derived from classical music. Its title evokes a sea of code through which computer art, often marginal, is still carried forward.

BIO

Kazuhiro Tanimoto is a chemist in materials R&D and a generative audiovisual artist. He builds real-time systems that harness computation, exploring algorithmic transformation through cellular automata and processes of generation, change, and collapse tied to material and social phenomena. His work is included in Rhizome ArtBase, in Art Blocks Curated, and exhibited in New York and beyond.