The Truchet Tile Explorer is an art generator that plays with classic Truchet tiles by breaking them. It uses tiles that don’t line up properly, don’t fit the organic nature of the original pattern, or otherwise are just a bit off but combines them using random recursion to produce interesting results.

Asterisk Painting is programmed to create a series of asterisks by repeatedly printing the number of milliseconds that have passed since the painting started. If left to run by itself it will do so; however, when started on a system with other threads running in the background delays external to my artwork may make the asterisks look more like spots and the painting may resemble the work of certain other overly-litigious artists.

One of a series of one-hour text sketches.

Asterisk Painting is featured in Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox.

Finite Monkeys is proof that there are not infinite monkeys on Twitter. Every thirty seconds it searches for tweets of love and compares them to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. It then displays the tweet with the highest similarity score.

One of a series of one-hour text sketches.

The problems to solve a dozen countries, are currently too late in 1944. (2014-01-28) — GovernmentAtWork (@GovtAtWork) March 29, 2015

@GovtAtWork is the display version of my Twitterbot GovtAtWork. This bot reads the Congressional Record every day and generates Markov chain-based poetry using its source text. As with the original material, lucidity varies.

One of a series of one-hour text sketches.