Welcome to the new 2024 Artsnova Digital Art Gallery. Artsnova Digital Art Gallery is home to the digital art, writings, presentations, photography, and other creative activities of Jim Plaxco. The digital art on display here was created using a variety of creative coding techniques, computer graphics software, hardware, and both film and digital photography. A key element in much of the art is the use of customized generative and algorithmic programs designed and written by the artist. The range of art represents the artist's varied interests and his quest to explore the full range of visual possibilities offered by digital technology and custom designed (creative coding) graphics software. Artsnova is also home to Jim's various book projects.
2024-11-26: Here's an article about my experiences as the Operations Manager and Principal Art Judge of the National Space Society and SmallSat Education Conference 2024 Roadmap to Space Student Art Contest that took place this fall. This was an art contest that was open to full time students on an international basis. I also served as creator and editor of an ebook about the contest, which you can download for free from the link provided in the article.
Read the full article: The National Space Society 2024 Roadmap to Space Student Art Contest
2024-07-27: I recently designed and coded a generative geometric art program that surpassed my expectations as to variety of abstract geometric art I would be able to create when using it. In this tutorial, I share this adventure in creative coding and the evolution of the generative art program written using the Processing programming language.
Continue reading Creative Coding for Generative Geometric Art
2024-07-01: Earlier this year I wrote about the website redesign challenges I faced in coming up with a new website design and site generation method. In this, part 2 of the series, I summarize my website redesign investigations into choosing a CSS framework, a new website generation methodology (dynamic vs static), my website redesign criteria and priorities, and my observations on the selection process.
Continue reading A Redesigned Artsnova Website Part 2
2024-03-26: The story behind the creation of Alien Biomech Portrait generative AI artwork is that it was one of many generative AI artworks I created as a part of doing research for two generative AI workshops I taught in 2023. One was for a science fiction convention and the other for students attending a space development conference. In the processing of deleting the art that got created during that process, I decided to keep this one and a number of others based on their artistic appeal.
Continue reading AI Generated Art - The Story Behind The Alien Biomech Portrait
2024-03-01: In an email from Bayphoto, there was a plug for an article titled 10 Habits of Successful Photographers. Taking notes as I read that article, those notes became the basis for this review of that article.
Continue reading A Critique of 10 Habits of Successful Photographers
2024-01-25: It is now 2024 and my deployment of a newly designed Artsnova website is finally a reality. I'm embarrassed to say that this has been a couple years in the making and is long overdue. I'm also embarrassed to say that during this period I have added very little new content to the website and wrote no blog posts. I'd like to share with you some of my thinking with respect to this website redesign.
Continue reading A Redesigned Artsnova Website Part 1
07/19/2024: The following generative geometric art was created earlier this year and are now on the Artsnova website. All were created using a variety of custom generative geometric art programs I wrote.
Following is look at the art and photography that has been newly added to Artsnova as of 02/29/2024.
