About me
Nathan Boisleux — student at IIM, exploring creative coding & generative art.
Bio
I'm Nathan Boisleux, a student at the IIM (Institut de l'Internet et du Multimédia). I'm drawn to the place where code, geometry and design meet — where a few lines of maths can produce an image you didn't fully plan. For Genuary 2026 I worked entirely in the pen-plotter tradition: no AI-generated images, no bitmaps, just vector lines a machine could physically draw. I rebuilt my whole month on top of Jean-Paul Delahaye's 1985 plotter library, so each piece is, in a way, a conversation between 1985 BASIC and 2026 JavaScript.
What is generative art?
Generative art is art made (at least partly) by an autonomous system — a set of rules the artist designs, then lets run. The artist doesn't place every line by hand; they place the process. Randomness, recursion, symmetry groups, cellular automata, mathematical curves — these become the brush. The same program, run twice, can give two different results, yet both carry the artist's fingerprint through the rules that produced them.
It has deep roots: Vera Molnár, Frieder Nake and Georg Nees were plotting algorithmic drawings in the 1960s; Delahaye's 1985 book put the same ideas into home micro-computers. Today the same spirit lives in p5.js, plotters, and challenges like Genuary. My 31 drawings sit consciously in that lineage.
Contact
- Name
- Nathan Boisleux
- nootcommercial@gmail.com
- School
- IIM — Institut de l'Internet et du Multimédia
- GitHub
- github.com/Noootzzz/IIM_GENUARY_RENDU
Jumps to my GitHub repository for this project.