Project books
Meridian
Matt DesLauriers
2023 · Vetro Editions
All 1,000 Meridian outputs gathered into a printed collection, with essays, code and an account of how the landscapes are generated.
Library
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Theory & technique
Foundations of Color
Jeff Davis
2015 · Tempe Digital
A visual introduction to colour relationships, perception and composition, written by the artist.
Monographs
Order/Disorder
Tyler Hobbs
2024 · Hurtwood Press
Hobbs’s first monograph surveys work from 2018 to 2023, with an interview and critical essay alongside the artist’s own texts.
Project books
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
Maya Man
2024 · Heavy Manners Library
A book of all 700 outputs from Man’s collection, bringing together the images, essays, conversations and source code.
Project books
Light Years
Dmitri Cherniak
2023 · Fellowship / DLC Arts
A clothbound publication for Cherniak’s dialogue with the photograms of László Moholy-Nagy, made with the support of his estate.
Monographs
Everything, Always, Everywhere
Rafaël Rozendaal
2017 · Valiz
Essays, an interview and visual sequences trace Rozendaal’s movement between websites, installations and printed work.
Theory & technique
Foundations of Design
Jeff Davis
2016 · Tempe Digital
An illustrated introduction to two-dimensional design, from line and shape to balance, movement and unity.
Theory & technique
Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks
Casey REAS
Anteism
An artist’s accessible introduction to making images with GANs. The revised edition adds an introduction and further artwork plates.
Artists’ books
Compressed Cinema
Casey REAS
Anteism
REAS’s Untitled Film Stills meet texts by Allison Parrish, pairing machine-generated images with a computational writing process.
Theory & technique
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
Casey REAS
2014 · MIT Press
A substantial guide to working with code as a visual medium, combining programming instruction with artistic practice.
Theory & technique
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Casey REAS
2014 · MIT Press
Ten authors examine one line of Commodore 64 BASIC as a cultural object, connecting programming with chance and visual form.
Theory & technique
Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
Casey REAS
2010 · Princeton Architectural Press
An illustrated survey of computational form across art, architecture and design, organised around ways of working with code.
Anthologies
Processing Community Catalog
Casey REAS
2023 · Processing Foundation
A nearly 1,000-page community publication celebrating two decades of Processing and its wider creative ecosystem.
Anthologies
Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age
Casey REAS, Zach Lieberman
2023 · Set Margins’
Interviews examine graphic design after the computer became an everyday tool, including conversations with Casey REAS and Zach Lieberman.
Theory & technique
Flash to the Core
Joshua Davis / PrayStation
2002 · New Riders
A publication from Davis’s Flash-era practice, preserved in the artist’s project archive.
Anthologies
On NFTs: The Hard Code Edition
Dmitri Cherniak
2024 · TASCHEN
A large-format survey of NFT art and its histories, bringing essays and artist profiles together in a collector publication.
Anthologies
Collecting Art Onchain
Jeff Davis, Dmitri Cherniak, Matt DesLauriers, Tyler Hobbs
2025 · Anteism / Kate Vass Galerie
Collector interviews and a broad roster of artists frame a decade of onchain art. The inaugural physical edition is paired with Manoloide’s Tecrrain.
Artists’ books
Home Alone
Rafaël Rozendaal
2020 · Three Star Books
A silkscreen-printed artist’s book translating Rozendaal’s digital sketches into paper, ink and a custom clamshell box.
Theory & technique
Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design
Golan Levin
2021 · MIT Press
A handbook of creative coding exercises, teaching approaches and interviews, illustrated with computational art and design projects.
Theory & technique
Data Sketches
Nadieh Bremer
2021 · A K Peters / CRC Press
Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the research, experiments and technical decisions behind 24 data visualization projects.
Monographs
Hidden Patterns: Visualizing Networks at BarabásiLab
BarabasiLab
2020 · Hatje Cantz
A survey of BarabásiLab’s visual language, tracing how the studio represents the structure and complexity of networks.
Theory & technique
Getting Started with Processing
Casey REAS
2015 · Make Community
A practical introduction to programming interactive graphics with Processing, written by the project’s co-founders. This second edition covers Processing 3.0.
Artists’ books
Technelegy
Sasha Stiles
2021 · Eyewear Publishing
A poetry collection combining Sasha Stiles’s writing, experiments with an AI alter ego and images of her art.
Theory & technique
Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet
Galo Canizares (itsgalo)
2019 · Applied Research and Design / ORO Editions
Essays on the ways software shapes design, architecture and everyday experience, from production tools to digital environments.
Monographs
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen
2018 · Phaidon (Contemporary Artists)
A survey of Paglen’s work across photography, surveillance, artificial intelligence and the infrastructures that shape what can be seen.
Monographs
Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan
2008 · Monacelli Press
An exhibition monograph exploring Donovan’s transformation of everyday materials into large sculptural installations, with critical essays and an artist interview.
Monographs
Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line
Loie Hollowell
2019 · Pace Publishing
An artist’s book built around nine paintings, with poems, an interview, sketchbook pages and die-cut elements that echo Hollowell’s treatment of the body.
Monographs
Leo Villareal: Coding Light
Leo Villareal
2025 · Monacelli Press
A survey of more than 30 light works across two decades, with essays and a conversation between Villareal and Sarah Sze.
Monographs
DRIFT: Choreographing the Future
Drift
2022 · Phaidon
A monograph on DRIFT’s installations and interactive sculptures, exploring relationships between nature, technology and collective behaviour.
Monographs
Robert Whitman: Playback
Robert Whitman
2003 · Dia Art Foundation
A study of Whitman’s performances, films and installations, published alongside the Dia retrospective and accompanied by a DVD.
John Gerrard
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Monographs
John Gerrard
John Gerrard
2011 · Ivorypress
A monograph accompanying Gerrard’s 2011 Ivorypress exhibition, with critical texts and a conversation with Simon Groom about his simulated worlds.
eBoy: Hello
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Monographs
eBoy: Hello
eBoy
2002 · Laurence King
A collection of eBoy’s pixel-based and vector graphics, including its densely detailed cities and imagery by Peter Stemmler.
Theory & technique
Tooling (Pamphlet Architecture 27)
Aranda\Lasch
2006 · Princeton Architectural Press
Seven computational approaches to architectural design, from spiralling and packing to weaving, cracking and tiling.
Haiku
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Artists’ books
Haiku
Rafaël Rozendaal
2018 · Spheres Publications
A collection of Rozendaal’s short poems, published by Spheres in 2018.
Artists’ books
Abstract Browsing
Rafaël Rozendaal
2016 · Library of the Printed Web
A printed exploration of Rozendaal’s browser-extension project, which turns the layouts of websites into abstract colour compositions.
Artists’ books
81 Horizons
Rafaël Rozendaal
2023 · Museum Folkwang / Walther und Franz König
The complete 81 Horizons collection translated into a book for Rozendaal’s Museum Folkwang exhibition.
Artists’ books
By Opening This Book You Agree to All of the Following Terms
Jonas Lund
2022 · Christophe Daviet-Théry / RRose Editions
A numbered artist’s book that treats reading as an agreement: a handwritten URL is concealed among its pages, extending the work online.
Artists’ books
A Child’s Machiavelli: A Primer on Power
Claudia Hart
2019 · Beatrice Books
Claudia Hart recasts Machiavelli’s The Prince as an illustrated primer on power. This record describes the 2019 Beatrice Books edition.
The First Circle: Radical Humanism
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Anthologies
The First Circle: Radical Humanism
Claudia Hart
Not confirmed
A collaborative book project by Claudia Hart and Natasha Chuk gathering artists’ accounts of how computers entered their creative practices.
About the library
A growing selection of books by, about, or featuring Art Blocks artists. Some document a specific collection; others follow an artist’s wider practice or the history of creative coding. This is a reading and buying guide, not an inventory of books held by AB5D.
Each record links to an artist, publisher or official distributor. Purchases take place on those sites. Edition details and availability can change; check the seller before ordering. Last researched 13 October 2026.
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