Jimi Wen is a Taiwanese creative coder, ink artist, and sculptor who moves between generative code, ink and paper, and physical media including textiles and furniture. Before turning to art, Wen ran a startup that failed and toured with the rock band Mayday. Wen began making generative art after taking part in Genuary 2022 and was minting collections within months.
Self-taught in code, Wen builds each work from a representative or figurative starting point, then abstracts it through iterative, loop-based coding that Wen compares to action painting, citing Teardrop as an example. Wen also works directly in ink and paper, an analog, one-take process without the option to undo a mark. In 2022, Wen and Thomas Noya co-created GTX on fxhash. Wen later began Si Wu Zi, a four-chapter generative project drawing on classical Chinese calligraphy and scripture.
