Post»James W. Morris (code constructor)

Posted by Steve Or Steven Read on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:45 PM in the News & Stuff section
  

 
  



Recently came across the website/portfolio of James W. Morris and was reminded of how much I love the art made by hardcore software engineers. I had almost forgotten, since much of the digital art I've been seeing out there lately falls into other categories. With coders who make art (or artists who go code-deep) there is often just something sublime about the wrestling with form, wandering variations, unexpected palettes, naming/documentation logic... all sorts of decision or procedural eccentricities to savor, and James is an adventurous example. For starters his unique website is built upon a CMS tool that he himself programmed from scratch. In his code section he has many colorful CSS/tag based works (a medium I have a fondness towards) such as the CSSNAKETRIX shown above. Music, paintings, video games, download-able tools... there is much to explore. This is good shit, please enjoy.