Marius Watz
@mariuswatz.bsky.social
Art and code since 1994. The time to resist is always.
"There is more to duty than the ability to manipulate algorithms." - Wise words from Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager
(Came across some old screenshot folders from 2017-2019. This was one of the more amusing relics...)
(Came across some old screenshot folders from 2017-2019. This was one of the more amusing relics...)
August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"There is more to duty than the ability to manipulate algorithms." - Wise words from Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager
(Came across some old screenshot folders from 2017-2019. This was one of the more amusing relics...)
(Came across some old screenshot folders from 2017-2019. This was one of the more amusing relics...)
David Burdeny - Saltern Study 08, Great Salt Lake, UT, 2015
www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/...
www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/...
June 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
David Burdeny - Saltern Study 08, Great Salt Lake, UT, 2015
www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/...
www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/...
Bot farm vs (John Deere) bot farm
May 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Bot farm vs (John Deere) bot farm
Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475), "Vase in perspective"
Recreated (right) in Blender by u/Subushie on Reddit.
www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...
Recreated (right) in Blender by u/Subushie on Reddit.
www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...
May 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475), "Vase in perspective"
Recreated (right) in Blender by u/Subushie on Reddit.
www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...
Recreated (right) in Blender by u/Subushie on Reddit.
www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...
Not sure if this is just a drop-shipping hustle for fairly mid T-shirts, but the IG AI reels of a future dominated by Azerbaijan Technology and their EuroShrimp GMO farmers are pretty dope.
Link to the reels, the Children of Khan site is where the merch lives. www.instagram.com/lucamaxiim/r...
Link to the reels, the Children of Khan site is where the merch lives. www.instagram.com/lucamaxiim/r...
May 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Not sure if this is just a drop-shipping hustle for fairly mid T-shirts, but the IG AI reels of a future dominated by Azerbaijan Technology and their EuroShrimp GMO farmers are pretty dope.
Link to the reels, the Children of Khan site is where the merch lives. www.instagram.com/lucamaxiim/r...
Link to the reels, the Children of Khan site is where the merch lives. www.instagram.com/lucamaxiim/r...
Blender files from on-going series: ~300 files of sketches + iterations, taking 1-8hrs each to render just so I can reject 90% on sight.
This is just the one project, I have 3-4 more folders just like it. Render addiction? Possibly. Still worth it.
Proof: Elysian Fields release (2024)
This is just the one project, I have 3-4 more folders just like it. Render addiction? Possibly. Still worth it.
Proof: Elysian Fields release (2024)
May 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Blender files from on-going series: ~300 files of sketches + iterations, taking 1-8hrs each to render just so I can reject 90% on sight.
This is just the one project, I have 3-4 more folders just like it. Render addiction? Possibly. Still worth it.
Proof: Elysian Fields release (2024)
This is just the one project, I have 3-4 more folders just like it. Render addiction? Possibly. Still worth it.
Proof: Elysian Fields release (2024)
Dont't forget, desire paths don't lie.
www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...
www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Dont't forget, desire paths don't lie.
www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...
www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...
I wonder if young people will even know what made that burn. 😬
I know, even without having done it myself. www.instagram.com/p/DJr31YLy-W...
I know, even without having done it myself. www.instagram.com/p/DJr31YLy-W...
May 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I wonder if young people will even know what made that burn. 😬
I know, even without having done it myself. www.instagram.com/p/DJr31YLy-W...
I know, even without having done it myself. www.instagram.com/p/DJr31YLy-W...
2001, Stealing Eyeballs exhibition, Künstlerhaus Wien. Organized by Museum in Progress (Christian Muhr & Sabine Dreher), arguably my first show as a solo artist.
Generative visual printed in Der Standard newspaper. Custom Java code, exported as EPS vector.
www.mip.at/en/projects/...
Generative visual printed in Der Standard newspaper. Custom Java code, exported as EPS vector.
www.mip.at/en/projects/...
May 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
2001, Stealing Eyeballs exhibition, Künstlerhaus Wien. Organized by Museum in Progress (Christian Muhr & Sabine Dreher), arguably my first show as a solo artist.
Generative visual printed in Der Standard newspaper. Custom Java code, exported as EPS vector.
www.mip.at/en/projects/...
Generative visual printed in Der Standard newspaper. Custom Java code, exported as EPS vector.
www.mip.at/en/projects/...
SOS is not a gang sign.
May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
SOS is not a gang sign.
Ralph Ziman: The MiG-21 project, part of his "Weapons of Mass Production" trilogy repurposing weapons. referencing Apartheid-era South Africa and Cold War weaponry, juxtaposed with African craft. ralphziman.com/weapons-of-m...
April 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ralph Ziman: The MiG-21 project, part of his "Weapons of Mass Production" trilogy repurposing weapons. referencing Apartheid-era South Africa and Cold War weaponry, juxtaposed with African craft. ralphziman.com/weapons-of-m...
Generative juvenilia: Boxbomb, web page with GIF animations, ~2000.
3D structure generated in Java, rendered with POV-Ray. #generative
3D structure generated in Java, rendered with POV-Ray. #generative
April 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Generative juvenilia: Boxbomb, web page with GIF animations, ~2000.
3D structure generated in Java, rendered with POV-Ray. #generative
3D structure generated in Java, rendered with POV-Ray. #generative
Animated GIF, created sometime late 1990's for my personal web site (evolutionzone.com), upsampled from 240x180 pixels.
The original graphics were 3D models generated with Java and rendered in POV-Ray, reduced to harsh B/W. #generative
The original graphics were 3D models generated with Java and rendered in POV-Ray, reduced to harsh B/W. #generative
April 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Animated GIF, created sometime late 1990's for my personal web site (evolutionzone.com), upsampled from 240x180 pixels.
The original graphics were 3D models generated with Java and rendered in POV-Ray, reduced to harsh B/W. #generative
The original graphics were 3D models generated with Java and rendered in POV-Ray, reduced to harsh B/W. #generative
LARPA - TAX HAVEN & TAX HELL, April 11. Two-part event for tax season, Bushwick, Brooklyn. Bring guilty purchases, exhibit as art, write off on taxes. By @ntschk.bsky.social, @lav.io and crafty co-conspirators.
www.instagram.com/p/DIAKxDGMr85/
www.instagram.com/p/DIAKxDGMr85/
April 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
LARPA - TAX HAVEN & TAX HELL, April 11. Two-part event for tax season, Bushwick, Brooklyn. Bring guilty purchases, exhibit as art, write off on taxes. By @ntschk.bsky.social, @lav.io and crafty co-conspirators.
www.instagram.com/p/DIAKxDGMr85/
www.instagram.com/p/DIAKxDGMr85/
When you call a render "bland" and suddenly it's a full 20hrs...
April 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
When you call a render "bland" and suddenly it's a full 20hrs...
From the same series of sketches. Rendering in highres 16 bit color produces lush surfaces and gradients, even when the geometry is rather dull.
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
From the same series of sketches. Rendering in highres 16 bit color produces lush surfaces and gradients, even when the geometry is rather dull.
Normcore Glitch (DefFlat02B 09FB 01) - WIP for some rendered 1/1s, with a Tezos release planned sometime soon.
I'm intrigued by the visual artifacts of 3D rendering (Blender, in this case), the friction between bland simulated "perfection" and the weirdness of synthetic spaces.
I'm intrigued by the visual artifacts of 3D rendering (Blender, in this case), the friction between bland simulated "perfection" and the weirdness of synthetic spaces.
April 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Normcore Glitch (DefFlat02B 09FB 01) - WIP for some rendered 1/1s, with a Tezos release planned sometime soon.
I'm intrigued by the visual artifacts of 3D rendering (Blender, in this case), the friction between bland simulated "perfection" and the weirdness of synthetic spaces.
I'm intrigued by the visual artifacts of 3D rendering (Blender, in this case), the friction between bland simulated "perfection" and the weirdness of synthetic spaces.
In computer graphics years, I'm this old.
POV-Ray was my first renderer. I was raytracing at 17, long before I figured I was a visual person.
www.imagico.de/pov/ray_povs...
POV-Ray was my first renderer. I was raytracing at 17, long before I figured I was a visual person.
www.imagico.de/pov/ray_povs...
February 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In computer graphics years, I'm this old.
POV-Ray was my first renderer. I was raytracing at 17, long before I figured I was a visual person.
www.imagico.de/pov/ray_povs...
POV-Ray was my first renderer. I was raytracing at 17, long before I figured I was a visual person.
www.imagico.de/pov/ray_povs...
Must listen: Tactics & Practice pod #3, interview with net artists @ubermorgen.bsky.social about their 2000 project Vote-Auction. (Because the US election is too important to leave to Americans...)
aksioma.org/the-future-b...
Amazing interview series from the wonderful @wmmna.bsky.social. 🌟
aksioma.org/the-future-b...
Amazing interview series from the wonderful @wmmna.bsky.social. 🌟
February 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Must listen: Tactics & Practice pod #3, interview with net artists @ubermorgen.bsky.social about their 2000 project Vote-Auction. (Because the US election is too important to leave to Americans...)
aksioma.org/the-future-b...
Amazing interview series from the wonderful @wmmna.bsky.social. 🌟
aksioma.org/the-future-b...
Amazing interview series from the wonderful @wmmna.bsky.social. 🌟
Ice stupas, Ladakh desert, India. Grassroots lo-tech solution to store water in frozen form, combating rising temperatures due to climate change.
Beautiful photographs by Ciril Jazbec. Story from @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Beautiful photographs by Ciril Jazbec. Story from @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
February 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ice stupas, Ladakh desert, India. Grassroots lo-tech solution to store water in frozen form, combating rising temperatures due to climate change.
Beautiful photographs by Ciril Jazbec. Story from @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Beautiful photographs by Ciril Jazbec. Story from @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Prime, 2010, public art for Bergen Bybane (light rail)
mariuswatz.com/2010/06/22/p...
mariuswatz.com/2010/06/22/p...
November 29, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Prime, 2010, public art for Bergen Bybane (light rail)
mariuswatz.com/2010/06/22/p...
mariuswatz.com/2010/06/22/p...
Fun fact: At the very left of this driving fail photo is a public artwork of mine.
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Fun fact: At the very left of this driving fail photo is a public artwork of mine.
Same. Colors likely enhanced by Oslo entering the cold season and people starting up their fireplaces for heating. Particulates ahoy, good for color but bad for asthmatics.
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Same. Colors likely enhanced by Oslo entering the cold season and people starting up their fireplaces for heating. Particulates ahoy, good for color but bad for asthmatics.
My most viral tweet? Election day, 2016, Union Sq, NYC
November 28, 2024 at 11:23 PM
My most viral tweet? Election day, 2016, Union Sq, NYC
Too much geometry, too many many color.
November 28, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Too much geometry, too many many color.