About

Renick Bell is an artist currently based in Tokyo. He creates the drawings here through custom algorithms which are then drawn on paper or other surfaces in ink with a plotter.

For drawings on display elsewhere, please inquire about availability and prices.

This process is related to his algorithmic music process. Recordings of that music can be purchased here:

https://renickbell.bandcamp.com/

He is an early member of the algorave movement. His current research interests are live coding, improvisation, and algorithmic composition using open source software. He is the author of Conductive, a library for live coding in the Haskell programming language. He is a graduate of the doctoral program at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he was a doctoral student at Tokyo Denki University. He has a masters degree in music technology from Indiana University and an interdisciplinary bachelors degree in electronic music, studio art, and philosophy from Texas Tech University. He is from West Texas but has lived in Tokyo since 2006; he previously lived in New York City from 1999-2001 and Taipei, Taiwan from 2001-2006.