Bart Simons is a generative artist and digital designer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He holds a degree in Interactive Media from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and started using code to create art in 2019. His work centers on color and how its meaning shifts with subtle changes in value, released as long-form generative series on platforms including Art Blocks, fxhash and Foundation.
In May 2021, his animated work Neo Shibuya was shown as part of the 30 Seconds Museum project, displayed across 85 screens in the Miyashita Park district of Tokyo. That August, he released the two-part series Miscalculation on Foundation, born from a Voronoi algorithm that produced an unexpected bug, and the two-part series Blush, built from organic, flowing shapes with hand-drawn-looking textures made in Processing. In November 2021 he collaborated with PRCNT skateboards on PRCNT, a deck design produced through his generative code. His piece Getijde (Dutch for tide) grew out of “spending most of the year cooped up inside four walls with a strong desire to escape”.
