Marcin Ignac is a Polish artist, programmer and designer based in London who visualizes data and creates artificial life forms. He works as a generative artist whose projects explore where natural and artificial forms meet. He is the founder of the data visualization and generative design studio Variable and co-creator of the node-based visual programming tool Nodes.io.
Ignac's path into computational art started with a childhood Amiga 500 and pixel-art software in the early 1990s, later deepening through vector graphics, computer science study and Europe's demoscene culture of programmed animations. He holds a degree in computer science and studied Intelligent Decision Support Systems at Poznań University of Technology, Intermedia at Poznań's Academy of Fine Arts, and interaction design at CIID in Copenhagen.
