Ignotus Mago

Screenshot of PixelAudio example sketch GesturePlayground. A display window with various brushstroke-like lines overlaid on a rainbow-hued, pixelated pattern. Off to the side, a GUI control palette with "Granular Synthesis" on its title bar.

Workshop at Hairpin Art Center
2800 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd FL
March 10, 2026, 7:00pm
Signals and Pixels

I present the latest developments of my open source software library for Processing, PixelAudio.

#code #art #algorithmicart #intermedia #music

A complex pattern of many small to medium-sized blocky shapes fills the rectangular area of this image. Though the shapes are angular and pixelated—the smallest ones are squares or L-shapes—the overall impression is one of organic growth or flow. Most of the image is worked out in light shades of green, blue and tan, but flock of shapes reminiscent of ragged clouds in darker colors—purple, sienna, deep blue and green with narrow narrow red shapes as accents—cuts across from the top left corner to the bottom edge.

Argosy Pattern 108f, state 3 (2026)
#algorithmic #art made with #Processing
Rhythmic pixel/signal patterns mapped to a piecewise #fractal by software and selectively colored in an image editing application.

A stepped diamond shape in pale parchment color with black and red lines arranged seemingly as a text that's not-quite-readable in rows across it floats in an azure sky anchored to a slate gray floor.

Azure Voyage: In One Slow Azure Voyage Embrace Resonant Heartache Storyboard Flashback Simplify Wounded Memory Dance Free Now Go (2026)
#algorithmic #art #digitalprint #unreadable #geometric #typeface #textart #concretepoetry

Executed in colors keyed to Silk Road pigments Tyrian purple, saffron, vermilion, and ultramarine, this colorful print uses the IgnoBlox font family to create a geometric pattern that may recall the early morning sky over travelers' tents or caravanserai. Or maybe it's just words in an abstract typeface conditioned by the sequential logic of language and the whims of an artist designing an unreadable text.

Silk Road: People Plants Animals Drugs Weapons Songs Ideas Objects (2026)
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#algorithmic #art #digitalprint #geometric #font #unreadable #typeface #textart #concretepoetry

bwskin_anim_002vt.gif (2016)
#algorithmic #glitch #animation #generative #art #noise #pattern made with #Processing and my glitchSort2 applet

paulhertz.net/docs/ware/Ig... describes the font family and includes links to download it. It licensed with CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please drop me a line if you do something interesting with it.

A pyramid or ziggurat-shaped composed of black and yellow text (hazard tape colors) in an unreadable font (IgnoBlox) reposes just below the low horizon of a featureless dark beige plain, limned against a featureless slate blue sky. The text reads, as one descends the pyramid: "My Own Boot Squad Unpack Culture Adroitly Dismantle Gatekeeper Colonialism".

My Own Boot Squad Unpack Culture Adroitly Dismantle Gatekeeper Colonialism, State 2 (2026)
#algorithmic #art #digital #print #geometric #font #design

In Safety Yellow, the words "History, Fascism, Amnesia" are stacked one upon the other, reading top to bottom. The background is a complex pattern, seemingly organic, but with a fractal or filigree feel.

History Fascism Amnesia (2024)
IgnoBlox Font on a background generated with the WaveSynth algorithm. The font is designed to be difficult to read, especially when all characters are bumped up against each other.
#algorithmic #art #digital #pattern #text

Rep. Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty · 6m For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.

It gets even more pathetic—

x.com/RepBeatty/st...

A labyrinthine pattern created from small tiled elements, where colors are muted by juxtaposition of complementary colors in the larger pattern and small flecks of bright color jump out. Created with the artist's own software.

Argosy 201a (2025)
#fractal #geometry #intermedia #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #digitalart #code #codeart #pattern #evolving #process made with #PixelAudio library for #Processing

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

A fractal maze of organic shapes composed of geometric tiles. Within each different shape, modular blocks in complementary colors identical in brightness blend together. The colors are muted because of their complementarity, but often intense in their saturated color. There is a armature of logic and chance underlying this image, but it's elusive.

Argosy Pattern 197a (2025)
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#fractal #geometry #intermedia #algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #generative #generativeart #code #codeart #pattern #evolving #process made with #PixelAudio library for #Processing

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.

He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.

Release the transcript.

And yet here we are, lost in admiration for an unseen event. Weird.

And u watched all 6 hours and 39 minutes!? That's dedication. Now you may be ready for cricket -- even longer and more arcane than beisbol.

Cardboard cut out cartoon image of T as a baby in diapers.

Demonstrators holding signs and a dumpy orange piñata. One sign says, "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido." The other says, "ICE escucha, estamos en la lucha! ICE escucha, el pueblo no se asusta."

A sign with a sculpted spine glued at the top, and the words "Congress and Sup. Court spineless since 2017"

Signs at #NoKings rally, #Chicago.

My sources say it's World Octopus Day. Coincidence?

From @talkingpointsmemo.com web page, another lie exposed. Undocumented immigrants do not receive govt healthcare. Also, they commit fewer crimes than the citizenry of the U.S. and evidence suggests their presence in the U.S. labor market is a plus. Truth is the first victim of authoritarianism.

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It. In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...

A juvenile green heron perched on the shore of a pond, ready to pluck a fish out of the water.

Juvenile green heron, Chicago Botanic Garden
#birds #birding #heron #chicago #botanicgarden

...to call a liar a liar, and to call an insurrectionist a traitor. American politics has always had a current of violence, sometimes overt, sometimes buried, but without the massacre of truth that brought Trump to power, we would not confront the same intensity of violence we do now.

...by ignoring or even accepting and furthering Trump's lies. I imagine the situation we are in would be vastly different if politicians on the right, in the GOP, if the great men and women of the party of Lincoln, as they would have it, had had the courage to call a spade a spade,

I am certain that Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 elections and lied about it and I am certain that the January 6th assault on Congress was an attempted insurrection. Much of the political violence we now experience stems from the willingness of political figures to commit violence against truth

I am convinced that the first violence, from which others spring, is violence towards truth. Even admitting the fallibility of witness, the biologically built-in erosion of memory, the errors a love of stories imposes on our species—even within the cloud of uncertainty my humanity imposes upon me—

On a background that at first appears a uniform gray color, but that reveals itself upon sustained looking to be desaturated shades of red, yellow, green and blue, bright rectangular flecks of color float, in deep blue, pink, and school bus yellow.

Argosy Pattern 183c
Loss of information, erosion, residue
#algorithmic #generative #codeart #code #art

A maze of pixelated markings that looks both like a map and like a document in an unknown language or code. Dark blue, nearly black glyphs dominate. They are linked by ovals in clear earth tones that float over a warm background with pastel blue "lakes", all sprinkled with bright yellow square flecks.

Argosy Pattern 171a (2025)
#algorithmic #art #algorithmicart #creativecode #codeart #pattern #evolving #process made with #Processing

On a background the color of unbleached newspaper connected blocky blobs of lichen green and basalt blue-black swirl as if caught in eddies. They might be words written in a feral language.

Argosy Pattern 173c Argosy Pattern 171a (2025)
#algorithmic #art #creativecode #codeart #pattern #evolving #process still frame, made with #Processing

Look into My Eyes!

Saw-whet owl resting on two branches.

Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada.

shocking

Small, brightly colored squares float over a background of large, staircase-edged, interlaced shapes in four colors: midnight blue, denim blue, slate, and straw. Symmetries abound, but are hidden along intricate fractal paths.

Argosy Pattern 168b (2025)
Created with software that I wrote, including the new PixelAudio library for #Processing: #digital #algorithmic #art #creativecode #codeart #patterns #fractals