Machine Arts Magazine | NO. 4
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Machine Arts Magazine | NO. 4

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Machine Arts Magazine | NO. 4

Machine Arts Magazine No. 4 explores the people, ideas, and creative practices behind machine art, bringing together pioneering computer art, poetry in the age of AI, and practical ways to take your own plotting further.

On the cover, Sasha Stiles’s A Living Poem invites us to reconsider the relationship between language, technology, and being human. In our feature profile, Stiles discusses her evolving practice across poetry, AI, handwriting, and code, from her installation at MoMA to the personal history that informs her work.

Digital art pioneer Frieder Nake joins DAM Projects founder Wolf Lieser for a conversation about his earliest plotter drawings, the politics that shaped his career, and what makes an artwork worth spending time with.

Our plotter school feature introduces Golan Levin, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Clement Valla, Gary Rohrbacher, Jenn Karson, Zach Lieberman, and Travess Smalley, exploring how these artists and educators bring creative code and physical materials together in the classroom.

We also follow Larva Labs’ Autoglyphs and Meebits from digital artworks to plotted drawings, tracing the hidden messages and puzzles woven into their work.

Rounding out the features, Windell Oskay shares 21 tips for the Bantam Tools NextDraw™ and AxiDraw, covering everything from choosing pens and paper to refining plotting workflows.

With exhibition highlights, community artwork, and a postcard plotting challenge, Machine Arts No. 4 offers fresh perspectives and practical inspiration for artists, educators, collectors, and anyone curious about creating with machines.

  • Sasha Stiles: The Poet in the Machine

    Poetry, handwriting, and AI meet in a practice that asks what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world. Go inside A Living Poem and the ideas behind it.

  • The Pioneer: Frieder Nake

    One of computer art’s founding figures reflects on six decades of algorithms, artistic decisions, and political convictions in conversation with Wolf Lieser.

  • The Secret Is in the Drawings

    From live Autoglyph plotting at the Toledo Museum of Art to Meebits portraits and hidden clues, explore the connections between code, ink, and discovery in Larva Labs’ work.

  • So You Want to Go to Plotter School

    Meet Golan Levin, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Clement Valla, Anne & Gary Rohrbacher, Jenn Karson, Zach Lieberman, and Travess Smalley - the artists and educators bringing machines into the art studio. Explore how they’re helping students turn creative code into experiments with pens, paper, and physical materials.

  • 21 Tips for Your NextDraw

    Windell Oskay shares practical advice for better plots, smoother workflows, and capabilities you may have overlooked. AxiDraw users can put these tips to work, too.

  • Packed with news, exhibitions, creative tools, unexpected surprises, and nonstop inspiration Machine Arts Magazine is your essential guide to the world of machine-assisted creativity. Order your copy today.

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