I co-founded Random Pixel Order in 2015 with Jay Cartis when I was an undergraduate in Bordeaux. The aim of the collective was to bring together the DIY worlds of fanzines and computer science and understand how they could mutually cross-pollinate. We wanted to promote the work of digital artists exploring experimental techniques of visual creation by offering them a tangible space for distribution away from the screen: print. We also wanted to encourage encounters between artists from the DIY and craft worlds of experimental digital creation and micro-publishing. This is how, from 2015 to 2019, we published several editions of fanzines and prints, and took part in various exhibitions, while experimenting with digital and interactive creations. We also developed two major projects with the collective: Screenshot and The Archive.

Screenshot

Screenshot review was a participative fanzine aimed at promoting different techniques of experimental and contemporary digital creation. The review gave total freedom to digital creators, with no constraints, no themes, just a space of blank pages for artists to express themselves freely.
Read more about the project > Screenshot

The Archive

The Archive was a collection of digital art zines that we had selected for their creative histories, or for the particular techniques they used (sometimes more than one). We took this archive on the road and exhibited it at various venues and festivals. The collection was open to digital art in general and contained a multitude of techniques: glitch (sonification, 3D glitches, pixel sorting, etc.), creative coding, images found on the web, bitmap and MS Paint drawings, scanner movements, digital collage, etc. Different printing techniques were also called for - some were entirely digital, others were silkscreens or risographs, and others mixed printing techniques.