Golan Levin

Join us Friday, January 9, from 6–8pm for the opening of the Drawing with Machines class exhibition at Machine Arts Gallery! Drawing with Machines is an advanced studio course at Carnegie Mellon University focused on experimental drawing, generative art, computational design, and mechatronic mishegoss. Working at the edges of creative code, automation, physical materials, and gestural mark making, students developed deeply personal and idiosyncratic approaches to digital imaging. The work treats workflow itself as a creative practice, and explores algorithms and machines as nontraditional intermediaries between mind, hand, and paper. presented in collaboration with @cmuschoolofart & @cmuideate

DRAWING WITH MACHINES 🦾 This fall, students in Professor Golan Levin’s advanced studio (@drawingwithmachines ) explored how machines can become collaborators, working at the boundaries of creative code, automation, physical materials, and gestural mark-making. Their personal explorations of new approaches to digital imaging include the development of ultra-niche workflows as a mode of creative practice and the use of algorithms and machine collaborators as nontraditional intermediaries between mind, hand, and paper. Now, their innovative new work will travel to the Bantam Machine Art Gallery (@bantamtools ) for a monthlong exhibition, on view January 9-19, 2026. 🔗 Read more at art.cmu.edu

An enriching week of machine arts, great food, and good summer times at Bantam Tools. Thank you good people!

Just back from an invigorating residency at @bantamtools with a group of brilliant plotter+educators. Spent the week experimenting with the ArtFrame’s affordances for continuous control of (Z-axis) pressure, in preparation for an assignment with my @drawingwithmachines students this fall 🤖🎨

Last week, we hosted a group of college and university educators at our Peekskill studio for a focused week of curriculum development, tool testing, and co-design. From lesson plans to prototypes, we explored how generative design and pen plotting can expand creative technology in higher ed. This was more than testing tools—it was about shaping them. Educators joined our development process to help imagine what’s next for the classroom and the studio alike. 🔧 Want to get involved in future initiatives? Reach out: [email protected] 🖼️ While you’re at it, catch Drawn to Teach, now on view at the Bantam Tools Machine Arts Gallery.

Join us this Friday for the opening of Drawn to Teach, a showcase of pen plotting in education featuring work by @golanlevin , @ownyourdataset , @daniela_kroehnert , Paul Cohen, and @fil_ro . Each of these educators will be present, sharing their work and their approach to machine arts in the classroom. July 18, 6–8 PM at the Machine Arts Gallery (107 S Division St, Peekskill). This week, we’ve been hosting this small group of college and university educators at our HQ workshop for a focused residency of curriculum development, tool testing, and creative exploration. It’s been a chance to work side by side with instructors already integrating pen plotting and generative design tools into higher education, and to imagine what’s next, together.

We'll be tinkering with offset curves in my 'Drawing with Machines' class this fall.

✨ Artist spotlight: Golan Levin (b. 1972) ✨ @golanlevin is a Pittsburgh-based artist and educator, active in software art since 1995. His work explores intersections of machine code, visual culture, and critical making to highlight our relationship with machines and expand human creativity. Levin’s art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tate London, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and has been exhibited at venues like the Whitney Biennial, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ars Electronica, and ICA London. He holds degrees from MIT and has been a Professor of electronic art at Carnegie Mellon University since 2004. With Tega Brain, he co-authored Code as Creative Medium (MIT Press, 2021), a guide for creative coding educators. Golan’s work will be shown at the collaborative exhibition "Awaken Metamagical Hands" at Gazelli Art House, curated by Robert Norton and John Maeda, opening July 18th. Artworks: Golan Levin, Meshy, 1998, 2024 Golan Levin, Zoofolium 10, 2024 Meshy is powered by @artblocksengine #GazelliArtHouse #GAZELLiO #Verisart #AwakenMetamagicalHands #GolanLevin

As a good luck talisman, @zenmetal__ surprised me with this pair of cell-themed rings.

Work in progress.

#AR 🎵🔉 homage to @reggiewatts - HT @aman_aman_aman @charstiles @ntschk @zach.lieberman #openFrameworks #madewitharkit #speechtotext

#PhantomTollbooth Real time speech to text in augmented reality with #ARKit and #openFrameworks (video has sound)