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Medusa is a kinetic sculpture of seven LED propeller-fans (gadgets normally used to spin advertising slogans into the air) rewired to display flora and arrayed around a single Arduino, giving the piece the silhouette of a drone whose own thrust is too feeble to lift it. Suspended from the ceiling, it hovers only in suggestion: machines writing each other letters of light, robots sending each other…
At Curated 2025, curated by Lionel Jadot at Mix Brussels, a fourth mosaic panel was presented in collaboration with artisan Françoise Lombaers. The work explores what happens when algorithmic processes meet traditional craft constraints. Using an implementation of the Prim-Jarník algorithm—typically used in computer science to find minimum spanning trees in weighted graphs—computational logic is…
For Shifting Ground, co-curated by studio minimètre and Béatrice Vancaillie, three pieces respond to the exhibition’s theme through different registers of displacement. Ground shifts in multiple ways: sometimes it rolls, sometimes it jumps, and sometimes it disappears entirely beneath people’s feet.
Roulé
A bent wood circle mounted on a shovel head. Where the following piece…
Digital solitude
Digital Solitude is a site that runs for one person at a time. When a second visitor arrives, it stops for everyone. The page keeps no cookies and stores nothing after you leave. Your presence is the condition for its existence.
After twenty years restoring heritage mosaics, Françoise Lombaers joins Guillaume Slizewicz to explore unmapped territory. Four algorithms—drawing from fungal networks, fractal patterns, and cellular automata—become mosaics where square tesserae generate unexpected organic movements. A quiet investigation into how ancient techniques might evolve.
Mosaic demands years of training. Its…
Carbon Technostructure traces the material weight of immaterial systems. A modified plotter, glass panel, and steamer work in concert to render visible what typically remains unseen: the environmental cost of computational processes.
Steam condenses on glass, creating an ephemeral drawing surface. An empty marker moves across this temporary canvas, inscribing patterns derived from real-time…
A two-room exhibition revisiting the architectural and artistic heritage of the Darvas House in Oradea
The winter garden owns an installation called “All I can see are ghosts”, paying tribute to the displaced civilians of Oradea’s recent history and more specifically to the fate of Oradea’s Jewish community during the Holocaust.
In the span of a few years, Oradea’s…
“Fragmented Memories” is a meditation on the archaeology of knowledge, where scientific diagrams are transformed into their own archaeological artifacts. Taking Prof. Degryse’s academic papers as raw material, the artist performs an act of temporal alchemy - extracting microscopic imagery and data visualizations, only to transmute them into enigmatic ceramic engravings that…
Décors is a process-driven work that explores the potential of machines to generate patterns on ceramic tiles. Traditional techniques like sgraffito, brushtrokes, airbrushing and mishima have been reinterpreted through the use of CNC machines and laser engravers, blending craftsmanship with digital precision. In reference to ancient cave paintings, the glaze is based on iron oxide, one of the…
In may 2024, Gijs de Heij and I had the opportunity to spend several weeks in Namur working on the project, Carbon Technostructures. This project focuses on analysing and displaying the digital carbon footprint of cultural venues and our energy interdependence.
During our residency, we analysed the energy data from Le Pavillon’s website and exhibitions. We used a plotter with a water steamer…
The Sprayramics project is a collaborative project between Guillaume Slizewicz, Mekanika, and Studio BISKT, which reimagines ceramic glazing through the development of an open sources 3-axis CNC glazing system.
The system aims to precisely apply glazes in unique patterns, using a combination of digital technology and traditional ceramic techniques.
Instruction are available here.
The…
‘Wolpertinger’ presents a thoughtful exploration of the cyclical and interconnected realities of contemporary forest management practices, situated against the escalating impacts of climate change. Born during the Schloss Hollenegg / Dutch Invertual residency, this piece merges myth with fact, embedding local Austrian tradition within a broader, global narrative.
Sculpted from…
The carbon aware project is a project about assessing the carbon impact of digital technologies. This project had two tracks:
1- Website redesign Together with Studio Alvin, we completed a thorough overhaul of my studio’s website, which you can find here. We transitioned from a clunky dual presence hosted on both Tumblr and GitHub to a full CSS website on a Hugo framework, also hosted on…
The Close Combat Data Storage is a multifunctional device tailored for agility and precision in the creative arena. Measuring 14.5 x 8.51 x 2.49 cm and weighing 230 grams, it’s crafted to be the companion of choice for DJs and designers alike. DJs will find its robust build and ample storage capacity perfect for loading their sets onto CDJs. Designers, on the other hand, will appreciate the ease…
Created from spalted beech wood, sourced from the Brussels region, this piece draws its design inspiration from the ESP-32, an iconic electronic component, modeled, scaled up fifteen times and cut with a precise CNC Machine to achieve its distinctive shape.
This table is made from spalted beechwood, a type of wood generally bypassed by industrial processes due to its irregular patterns. By…
The Green Type project, spanning from September to December 2023, was an explorative project into the possibilities of sustainable exhibition design. The focus was on assessing the viability of vertical printing technology, particularly through the use of a UV-vertical Wallpen printer, as a potential alternative to traditional vinyl lettering. Through experiments I came to a few conclusions about…
In November 2023, Sandy Claes and I had the pleasure of organising ‘Promptism’ at BAC ART LAB in Leuven. This exhibition marked the end of a week-long workshop with Media and Information Design students from LUCA School of Arts. Our focus was on the technical and ethical boundaries of new image generation models. The students engaged with image synthesis, questioning and exploring its…
Writing with Otlet, Mixed Media, 2019 Writing with Otlet is a character generator that uses the spoken portrait code as its database. Random numbers are generated and translated into a set of features. By creating unique instances, the algorithm reveals the richness of the description that is possible with the portrait code while at the same time embodying its nuances.
An interpretation of…
Silicon memories from a local photo album
*I can remember* is a project that probes the creative potential of image analysis algorithms and the empathy we can feel towards machines.
It uses a small series of local photographs and run them through two algorithms of image description. Through grammar creation, these output handwritten poems. These handwritten poems are then plotted by a…
Glossolalia and Barbarism: the algoliterator by Algolit The algoliterator is a silicone being that has been tamed by algolit, it feeds exclusively on text. It is a companion for writing, a digital oracle, which makes it possible to escape from the white page, to take on the style of well-known authors and to dress its text with the turns and vocabularies of the greatest novelists. For this…
Pink is the result of the Workshop led by MischerTraxler Studio at Boisbuchet in 2019. It is a playful experiment on the meaning of colour pink and how it could be translated into movements. We started by defining words that relate to pink such as cheeky, naive, soft, artificial and fantasy. Then we attempted to translate those words into physical gestures and asked ourselves what movements could…
This debut collection showcases three designs: star, coral, and spiral, available in black, white, and transparent.
These door button handles are the results of a the Layramics project, a collaboration with Studio Minimètre which explores the possibilities of merging algorithmically generated design with 3D printed ceramics. We had the chance to meet thanks to MAD, Home of Creators .
This…
Canari is a lamp that transform local air quality data into light patterns. It draws its inspiration from the canari, a bird that was the coal-miners companion and alerted them when the air was contaminated.
The table lamp version of the project is supported by @kikk_festival through its edutainment program. A program that gathers academics, designers and companies around a theme related to…
“The Stack” is a project that delves into the intricate layers of understanding and creation in the realm of digital arts. It’s a representation on the artist’s personal journey through the intricate world of artistic creation, exploring the balance between the quest for pure expression and the complex realities of technological mastery. Borrowing its name from both engineering lexicon and…
In the context of MODERN CRAFT #2 — The Power of Ceramics at MAD Brussels I had the chance to exhibit the first part of my project tablets, inspired on the relationship between clay and information through proto-writing, neural representation, scientific diagrams, and menhir statue from the south of france.
Pottery is one of the most ancestral technologies humans have, but beyond being used…
“Ici Bientôt le 7ème ciel" is a first collaboration between Basile Boon and Guillaume Slizewicz where two practices meet: sculpture and digital art.
At the end of the cable fixed to the crane, a ceramic hand points towards the ground, its movements guided by a digitized alphabet. Inside the tower, an arduino calculates the necessary coordinates to move the hand towards the next sign and sends…
What would happen if all the cookies and algorithms that follow us on the internet were also present in physical space?
Starting from this idea, Guillaume Slizewicz developed Accept All, a robotic performance in which 5 small robots with a limited intelligence follow the spectators around the exhibition like an embodied representation of the monitoring scripts that are present on our phones…
Is it possible for algorithms to read a poetic story in an archive of news articles on digital surveillance, updated daily by the same person for fifteen years? Can algorithms read the story of the creators’ database while parsing it?
Together with the collective Algolit, we investigated these questions using e-traces, the database maintained by artist Michel Cleempoel. The answers are a…
Trees of Discomfort is an artistic interpretation of the random forest algorithm, a machine learning algorithm in which several decision trees are trained on a dataset and form a forest. The trees of the of forest try to predict the category of a given observation. They do this by answering a set of yes or no questions. Starting at the root of the tree they follow either the left or right branch…
Together With Tropozone, we created an installation questionning the notion of voice assistants. The piece is an assemblage of voice agents that invites you to reroute your attention to the overlooked, the unfamiliar, and the forgotten. Tune in one of the nodes, have a conversation, contaminate your semantic space, and start to listen and care.
Since their creation, voice assistants have been…
I am happy to be part of the cohort of 10 designers selected by the MAD for their incubator in 2022-2024.
The Ceramic C-19 Knife/Chopstick Rest is a unique piece of dining decor inspired by the global pandemic. This knife rest takes the form of a Covid-19 test card, and it is entirely made of ceramic.
The design of the knife rest mimics the look of a real test card, with its specific and recognizable shape. Unlike a real test card, this knife rest is both functional and beautiful. Its smooth and…
In January 2026, a social network called Moltbook launched exclusively for AI agents. No humans allowed : only observers. The same month, a marketing discipline called Generative Engine Optimization became a boardroom concern: companies now spend six figures a year making themselves legible not to people, but to large language models. In February, an autonomous AI agent researched the personal…