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Marcin Ignac: links

Selected records situate Seadragons within Ignac’s wider practice of generative organisms, data art, tools, and installations.

24 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

The marketplace record identifies Seadragons as an Art Blocks collection by Marcin Ignac.

Seadragons collection · 2021

Interviews

Data Stories speaks with Ignac about data art, Variable’s process, visual programming, and tools.

Data Stories 153 interview · 2020

Press and criticism

Laughing Squid reviews Cindermedusae and its algorithmically varied three-dimensional organisms.

Cindermedusae press · 2011

Inverted Audio examines the transformations, parameters, and randomized animation of Cindermedusae.

Marcin Ignac: Cindermedusae criticism · 2010

Nightingale reports Ignac’s account of the relationship between data visualization and generative abstraction.

Getting lost in the world of data criticism · 2021

Museums and institutions

The V&A records Ignac’s workshop on data storytelling and open-source visualization tools.

Samsung Digital Classroom institution · 2018

Poland’s Expo 2025 site documents Ignac’s participatory Spirit Plant and Generations installations.

Poland Pavilion exhibition institution · 2025

The official Expo report credits Ignac and Variable and explains how Generations gathered visitors’ parametric plants.

Poland Pavilion at Expo 2025 institution · 2025

Variable documents Flora as a speculative genetic-engineering application created for the Museum of Future Government Services.

Flora institution · 2014

Variable documents UCC Organism as a live institutional visualization distributed across more than 30 campus screens.

UCC Organism institution · 2016

Galleries and exhibitions

Variable documents Tangent as an artwork commissioned for the art+bits exhibition in Katowice.

Tangent exhibition · 2012

Variable records Museum Week as a web artwork exhibited at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.

Museum Week exhibition · 2015

Essays, talks and podcasts

Variable’s Eyeo record connects computer graphics, data visualization, and Ignac’s artistic practice.

From Abstraction to Realism and Back talk · 2017

FITC profiles Ignac’s generative systems and records his Evolving Tools appearance in Amsterdam.

Evolving Tools talk · 2012

Variable’s Nodes Stream introduces its visual programming tool through Ignac’s recorded generative-design demonstrations.

Marcin’s Nodes Stream talk series · contemporary

Awards and design archives

Red Dot credits Ignac as generative system director for H&M Infinite Dreams.

H&M Infinite Dreams award archive · 2023

Variable documents PEX as a modular software system for computational thinking, graphics, and visualization.

PEX design archive · 2014-2017

Profiles and archives

Raster aggregates Marcin Ignac's tokenized works across platforms.

Raster profile · ongoing

Variable profiles Ignac as founder and creative lead and summarizes his computational practice.

Marcin Ignac at Variable profile · contemporary

Variable documents Every Day of My Life as a visualization of two and a half years of computer-use data.

Every Day of My Life project archive · 2012

Variable documents Inflows / Outflows as four artworks generated from millions of population-flow data points.

Inflows / Outflows project archive · 2015

Variable documents Timespace as a spatial visualization derived from the studio’s Dropbox files.

Timespace project archive · 2015

Variable documents MRI of the Earth as a machine-learning data-art collaboration addressing climate change.

MRI of the Earth project archive · 2022

Video

Ignac presents Algorithmic Memory 001: City as real-time generative paintings made entirely with custom software.

Algorithmic Memory 001: City video · 2021

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