“There’s no separation between studio and gallery. The repo becomes the exhibition, and the code turns into canvas and conversation.”
– Curator and critic
Benoit Palop, on
Chih-Yu Chen and
Ayumu Nagamatsu’s NEORT++ Tokyo show “
Silver Trail.” Presenting algorithmic art co-written through daily GitHub commits, the duo creates what Palop describes as “a special intimacy” requiring “mutual vulnerability rarely seen in the art world.”