Andreas Gysin (Swiss, b. 1975) is an artist and designer working across interactive installations, kinetic and digital sculptures, and generative art, often with Sidi Vanetti, for public spaces and institutions. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, he runs a studio for procedural graphics and animations for screen and print. His solo on-chain work often builds images and patterns from ASCII characters, each piece behaving like a functioning device that loops, reacts, or runs indefinitely.
His interest in code traces back to an early exposure to ASCII and ANSI art in the 1980s. Gysin met his longtime collaborator Sidi Vanetti while studying at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ticino. During the final year of his graphic-design studies he created a public SMS installation for a festival in Fribourg that toured several cities, and with Vanetti created a new interactive installation every month for two years at a cultural center near Locarno. In October 2020 he minted the ASCII-based piece 1603311416192 on Rarible.
