Dominikus

Artist

Dominikus · dominikus.art ↗

Based

Born in Dießen am Ammersee, Germany. Lives and works in the Munich area, Germany.

Practice

Generative artist and Professor for Generative Design and Creative AI at Hochschule München, with a background in data visualization and a focus on systems, emergence, and psychological abstraction in code-based art.

Now

Professor at Hochschule München while developing generative projects across platforms including Art Blocks and gm.studio.

Raster

raster.art/artist/dominikus ↗

Raster

raster.art/artist/dominikus ↗

In the set

The Inner World ↗ · 400 editions

Links

Full bibliography ↗

Dominikus Baur approaches generative art as a means to externalize the complex, often invisible architectures of human cognition and emotion.¹ Drawing on his academic foundation in data visualization, he constructs algorithmic systems that generate glimpses into fictional yet resonant inner worlds. The Inner World stands as his most prominent project in this vein, a series of 400 unique generative artworks released on Art Blocks.² The collection visualizes processes of thought and feeling through evolving forms that radiate from central circular cores. These cores symbolize the centers of personalities from which thoughts, emotions, and associations branch outward in varied patterns and textures. Public descriptions emphasize the richness of inner lives rendered through code, producing outputs that range across abstract compositions with geometric precision and organic variation.³ Additional generative pieces by the artist appear on platforms such as Raster.¹²

Academic Foundations and Professional Context

Baur holds a professorship in Generative Design and Creative AI at Hochschule München, where his teaching and research bridge technical innovation with artistic inquiry.⁶ He earned his doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2011, with a focus on personal data visualization. This background in structuring information and revealing patterns informs his generative works, where randomness and rules coalesce into coherent visual narratives. Earlier profiles situate his practice within broader explorations of data, interaction design, and exhibition contexts focused on unstable media.⁷⁸ He has participated in events and discussions that explicitly compare data visualization practices with data art and generative art traditions.¹⁰ He has been featured as a speaker in contexts focused on creative technologies and design innovation.⁹ A dedicated gallery profile underscores his fascination with computational glimpses into fictional worlds.⁴

The Inner World and Generative Practice

Released in collaboration with platforms and galleries attuned to digital art, The Inner World exemplifies Baur's interest in procedural generation as a tool for psychological inquiry.¹ The 400 editions demonstrate a wide parameter space, yielding diverse yet thematically linked outputs that invite prolonged viewing and interpretation. Support from Kate Vass Galerie included promotional context and exhibition opportunities, such as the PHYGITAL presentation that situated his work alongside other generative practitioners.⁵ Beyond this collection, Baur has pursued related projects on alternative platforms, underscoring his ongoing engagement with on-chain and code-driven art ecosystems.³ His contributions extend to community and educational spheres through talks and profiles that articulate the conceptual overlaps between his visualization research and artistic output.¹¹

The six example renders illustrate the range of compositional strategies within the series, from dense, multi-layered arrangements to more sparse, flowing configurations, all anchored in the core motif of emergent form from a central origin point.

Live on Art Blocks: the-inner-world-by-dominikus ↗

Bibliography

The references cited in this essay are listed below. For the complete bibliography see the Dominikus links page ↗.