Mandy Brigwell is a generative artist and programmer who renders mathematics into code-based visual and sound works, primarily released on fxhash, Teia, and Versum. She studied mathematics and computer programming at university, and traces her fascination with turning mathematics into graphical form back to programming a Mandelbrot set renderer on a Casio graphics calculator in 1992.
She names Bridget Riley, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dalí, Giacomo Balla, H.R. Giger, and Zdzisław Beksiński as touchstones, with Escher and Riley standing as direct influences on her work. Among contemporary artists, she has singled out Dave Whyte, known as Bees and Bombs, for his looped animations, and Roni Kaufman's generative work. In March 2021 she read a tutorial on minting on the Tezos platform hic et nunc, written by the blog Gorilla Sun, and later minted her first generative works there. She is colourblind, and has adapted by thinking of colour programmatically, in terms of specific hue angles within the HSB colour model.
