Satoshi Aizawa

Satoshi Aizawa was born in 1987 in Japan. He is a generative artist whose work explores the beauty that arises from autonomous systems and algorithms. He earned an MFA from Tokyo Zokei University in 2012. His practice is defined by restraint: a commitment to minimal forms, simple mechanisms, and the removal of cultural or symbolic references. Rather than layering meaning, he builds environments where perception engages at its most basic level, emphasizing direct visual dialogue between viewer and code. This clarity has guided his work across animation, digital drawing, and blockchain-based projects, where he treats code not as a tool for simulation but as an independent agent capable of producing its own order.

Across more than a decade of experimentation, Aizawa has developed a body of work that is both consistent in its principles and varied in its expression. His long-running Path series, first prototyped in the early 2010s and later released on Hic et Nunc, established his distinctive language through looping line animations that continuously redraw themselves. In Grey Path, presented in 2024 at NEORT++ and online with Feral File, he used Python’s NumPy library as a deliberate homage to Hiroshi Kawano’s Fortran programs, producing subtle grey fields that only resolve at exact scales. The work underscores his interest in fragility of perception, generating patterns that vanish or distort outside their intended resolution. He has also created the NFT series BUDDHA VERSE, linking algorithmic image-making with Buddhist thought and raising questions about the ethical and ecological implications of blockchain platforms.