Fellowship x @artxcode_io Presents: "Corpus Algorithmica" by Jean-Jacques Duclaux @Eko3316 This collection grows out of what Jean-Jacques Duclaux calls “code archaeology,” using algorithms to excavate data, memory, and emotion. Drawing on sociology and psychology, he uses AI to surface hidden biases, fantasies, and collective memories, creating images that feel both analytical and deeply human while probing the tension between control and surrender. ↓ Here's everything you need to know:

◾️About the artist Jean-Jacques Duclaux, known as Eko33, is a generative art pioneer who has been programming artworks since the late 1990s, starting out with a Commodore computer and floppy disks. His practice merges custom code, self-trained AI models, and neural networks to create abstractions where geometric precision meets organic, almost chaotic movement. He has shown work at major venues and events including Art Basel Miami and Hong Kong, the Venice Biennale’s digital art showcase, and leading European galleries, and is active across Ethereum, Tezos, and Solana. Alongside his technical rigor, Duclaux is deeply interested in how people think and feel. Studies in sociology and psychology inform a practice where each system is also a model of cognition, decision-making, and perception.

◾️ Past Projects → Latent Ink (2024) – Presented by @artxcode_io and Fellowship, Latent Ink is a landmark body of 500 works exploring the evolving dialogue between human creativity and machine collaboration. The project combines AI trained on Eko33’s own sketches with p5.js generative systems, machine vision, and GLSL shaders, and extends into the physical world through meticulously plotted drawings that are digitized at high resolution. → Le Monde Non Objectif (2023) – A solo exhibition at Unpaired Gallery in Zug, curated with Kate Vass, focused on non-objective geometric abstractions and “pure” algorithmic art. → Robotic Scrolls of the Mind (2024) – Shown during Digital Art Mile in Basel with ARTXCODE, this series uses AI to evoke slowly shifting, underwater-like states, testing how code can hold emotion, memory, and subtle perceptual change over time. These projects form the backdrop for Corpus Algorithmica, extending his long-term research into how machines and humans co-construct images and meaning. ☝️

◾️About the collection: In Corpus Algorithmica, Duclaux turns his idea of “code archaeology” onto the human psyche itself. The works arise from systems that sift through the “residues” of data and algorithms – traces of behavior, preference, attention – and recombine them into fragile, layered images. Where earlier projects leaned toward strict, rational geometry, Corpus Algorithmica embraces the strange softness introduced by AI. The forms feel less like diagrams and more like emotional weather: dense, trembling structures that hover between order and breakdown. The machine becomes a mirror for our own cognitive biases and emotional architectures, producing images that feel close and distant at the same time. Across these artworks, Duclaux balances reason and affect: precise, rule-based systems are pushed until they start to fray into something almost bodily, as if the code were remembering, grieving, or dreaming.