Fingacode is the name used by Junior Ngoma, a self-taught generative artist and software engineer who grew up in Cameroon and is based in the north of England. Working primarily in the visual programming environment TouchDesigner, he produces optical, pattern-driven digital works, having been coding since the age of thirteen and making pre-NFT digital art for more than a decade.
He began sharing work under a separate account after feeling his personal social media posts were held back by algorithms, and when the Fingacode account took off he kept the name. Ngoma worked earlier in graphic design, making mixtape covers and event posters, before immersing himself in TouchDesigner during the 2020-21 lockdowns and entering the NFT space around 2022. His practice folds music and interactivity in alongside the visual patterns he generates in code. He has resisted calling himself an artist, saying he would rather leave that title to people who have studied art's theoretical side and prefers to let others describe his work as they see it. He has compared the generative art community's practice of sharing TouchDesigner project files to open-source software culture, since its participants are, in his words, “developers by trade who are already used to the principle of an open-source community”.
