Marius Watz (NO) is an artist working with visual abstraction through generative software processes. His work is concerned with the synthesis of form as the product of parametric behaviors. He is known for his hard-edged geometries and vivid colors.

Watz has exhibited at venues like the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Todaysart (The Hague), ITAU Cultural (Sao Paulo), Museumsquartier (Vienna), and Galleri ROM (Oslo). He is a lecturer in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. In 2005 he founded Generator.x, a curatorial platform for the production of a series of events related to generative art and computational design.

Marius Watz is represented by [DAM]Berlin. He currently lives in New York and Oslo.

Documentation

• Marius Watz – Bio (PDF, 0.5 MB)
• Marius Watz – Selected documentation (PDF, 5.5 MB)
• Marius Watz – Commercial references (PDF, 27.5 MB)

Social media

• Twitter: @mariuswatz
• Twitter: @generatorx
• Google+ Profile
• flickr.com/photos/watz

Texts & interviews

• Bruce Sterling: Generator Everything
• CONT3XT.NET: Technological Mimesis | Marius Watz
• Artforum – Critic’s pick: Automatic Writing
• Digital Tools blog: Generative Art and Generator.X – A Talk with Marius Watz
• Artificial.dk: Generative Art Now