Eko33, the alias of Jean-Jacques Duclaux, has written code to create art since 1999, when he made his first digital works on a Commodore SX-64 using floppy disks.,His nonfigurative, generative work forms clear geometric structures using custom algorithms and electronic hardware, and he later began training AI models on his own hand drawings to feed into that process.,,He lives in the Swiss Alps.
Duclaux studied sociology and later completed a postgraduate degree in cognitive psychology.,He has traced his fascination with objectivity and cognitive bias to that training, citing the sociologist Émile Durkheim and the philosopher Karl Popper among his influences.His interest in working with computers began in 1999 through experimental music, using tools such as Max/MSP and SuperCollider before moving into visual work with Processing and p5.js.Coding comes last in his process: he spends about 80 percent of his time drawing by hand and gathering references, and the remaining 20 percent writing code.,
In 2022 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale's Tezos-supported pavilion and at Art Basel, and Forbes listed him among the “Best of Art Basel 2022”.,That December, Kate Vass Galerie presented his first solo show, “Le Monde Non Objectif”, at unpaired. Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, curated by Kate Vass within Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist philosophy of non-objective art.,In 2023 he released Neural Sediments through Art Blocks Curated, a long-form generative series exploring cognitive bias and objectivity that draws on the painters Alberto Burri and František Kupka.,That year he also began Terra Incognita, pairing plotter drawings with NFTs and, from its second phase, storing the works on-chain as SVG files.,In October he exhibited alongside more than a dozen other generative artists in “Node to Node”, Kate Vass Galerie's Art Salon in Paris.,
In 2024 ARTXCODE, the gallery representing him, presented six unique works, Robotic Scrolls of the Mind, at Art Basel in collaboration with Makersplace.,That December, Fellowship's London gallery presented his solo exhibition Latent Ink, 500 unique artworks combining AI trained on his own drawings with p5.js and GLSL-driven generative processes across physical and digital formats.,Auctions for the collection reached 370 ETH, about 1.44 million dollars.Between late 2025 and mid-2026 he presented Corpus Algorithmica through Fellowship, an online project using what he calls “code archaeology” to examine data's hidden biases.In June 2026 he showed Calculated Skies at NFC Summit in Lisbon, curated by Marlene Corbun and presented by DANAE, pairing mirrored generative infinity rooms with twenty unique digital works produced with GLSL shaders.,
