Juan Pedro Vallejo is an Argentine artist who makes generative images with code, working in a tradition he traces to kinetic and Op Art. He was introduced to programming as a child by his father, and later studied film before turning to code as a faster way to connect his ideas to finished work.,
He shifted decisively toward kinetic art after seeing a retrospective of Julio Le Parc at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Argentina, and began studying the color theories of Le Parc and Carlos Cruz-Diez alongside Josef Albers's writing on color. He has said he feels “more like a kinetic artist than a generative artist”. This thinking led him to a concept he calls “Pure Visibility”, the idea that a work offers experience rather than meaning, and that art need not channel emotion to have value.
In Interferences, a fixed edition of 256 interactive, animated works released on Art Blocks in September 2022, viewers click and drag to reorder colored shapes, expanding on the small color palettes Le Parc built into his concentric-circle paintings. The project draws on Bauhaus and Latin American kinetic color theory from the 1950s, treating color as something relative and in motion rather than fixed to a single meaning.,For Subtraction, Reconfiguration, released with Bright Moments in Buenos Aires in November 2023, he started from a square or circle and intersected it with other shapes to create unstable visual configurations, citing the graphic designer Armin Hofmann as a reference.
