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Jean-Philippe Côté's visual and interactive work is always driven by algorithms. Using open source software and pieces of “obsolete” hardware, he puts together interactive installations and generate imagery that bring back a sense of tangibility to this otherwise artificial, virtual and augmented world of ours.

Jean-Philippe leverages his early years as an award-winning developer to devise algorithmic approaches to creating art and re-shaping reality. This makes him a respected contributor to the open source community, especially in the fields of creative coding and physical computing.

His subject of choice is the human body which he often draws using micro or macro line segments. While figurative, his work challenges perception. The viewer’s brain is asked to fill in the gaps and one often needs to change his point of view to fully appreciate the work.

His work has been featured on 3 continents in venues such as the Arsenale di Venezia, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, Düsseldorf’s Capitol Theather, Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Société des arts technologiques (SAT) or Fukuoka City’s Science Museum.

In 2019, his work Yöti – The Algorithmic Portrait Artist was the overall winner of the Sculpture, installation and virtual art category of the Arte Laguna Prize. This is what the judges had to say:

For the technical research that integrates the millenary tradition of the portrait with a deeply contemporary vision in relation to the new technologies that are taking hold in the world of contemporary art.

He has been invited to present his work or speak at various events such as: ISEA (South Korea), Arte Laguna Prize (Italy), Eyeo (USA), FITC (Canada), Beyond Tellerrand (Germany), CODAME ART+TECH (USA), 404 Festival (USA and Japan), Chromatic (Canada), etc.