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Karl Sims

Featured in 1 editorial and mentioned in 3 more. Mentioned in 7 podcast episodes. The subject of 5 Timeline moments and mentioned in 9 more (1975 to 2008). Appears alongside 150 other people.

Karl Sims is a digital media artist and visual effects software developer. His interactive works have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Pompidou Center, Ars Electronica and the National Museum of Mathematics.

Karl SimsPhoto: jeanbaptisteparis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Quotes

They just try things at random with natural selection or artificial selection feedback. Then they try more things at random and iterate and build on that.

Karl Sims, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology

He introduced me to Danny Hillis and the gang at Thinking Machines and I ended up joining them and trying to figure out how to program this crazy new parallel computer—to make pictures and computer animation with it.

Karl Sims, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology

Featured in

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Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology
November 17, 2025

Mentioned in

101
Larva Labs on Computation’s Strangeness
October 6, 2025
37
Demystifying Generative Aesthetics
March 21, 2024
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Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2
July 5, 2023
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Podcast mentions

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Lawrence Lek—World Entry Points with Peter Bauman
January 16, 2026
33
Dr Mimi Nguyen—Disruptive Innovation in Contemporary Art with Peter Bauman
November 21, 2025
24
Tom White & Gene Kogan on the Birth of GAN Art (Deep Learning Series 01)
April 14, 2025
11
Timeline Ch 8: Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin
May 15, 2024
10
Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić
April 11, 2024
9
One Year of Le Random
March 22, 2024
8
Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis
February 8, 2024

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