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Machine Arts Magazine No. 4 is here! Inside: Sasha Stiles on poetry and AI, Frieder Nake in conversation with Wolf Lieser of DAMDigitalArt , and the hidden puzzles in LarvaLavs Autoglyphs and Meebits. Get your copy at bantamtools.com

The Bantam Tools HandWriter® is a high-speed handwriting machine designed to produce personalized letters at campaign scale, helping businesses create thoughtful, memorable, and effective customer outreach. Find out more at HandWriter.com

My first-ever intaglio, made this morning in a generous residency at @bantamtools.bsky.social

Friends! Join me this Thursday evening at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill for a popup solo show of blobby #plotterArt and computational intaglio! bantamtools.com/pages/gallery 🤖🎨🦠

Tooooo much fun with my @bantamtools.bsky.social watercolor bot

Playing with my @bantamtools.bsky.social watercolor bot and figuring it out

A nice writeup about my students' exhibition of #generative #plotter art at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill, New York! art.cmu.edu/news/student...

The Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ introduces real watercolor, real brushes, and an easy creative workflow. powered by Bantam Tools Studio™ & the new Bantam Tools Image Processor™ orders yours today & find out more at bantamtools.com/paint

In Peekskill this Friday, 1/9? Please join me and my Drawing with Machines students for the opening of our exhibition at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery! We'll be showing scores of generative artworks created with pen-plotters, p5.js, and much more! www.instagram.com/p/DTGWAUlkS8Q/

bantamtools.com/paint Coming in 2026

Bantam Tools Draw™ is a minimalist iPad drawing app to turns your sketches into Art Machine ready line work. available now on iOS, find out more at bantamtools.com/draw

The new Bantam Tools NextDraw™ SVG Player is a standalone controller that frees your Bantam Tools NextDraw™ or AxiDraw Plotter from the computer. Just plug in a USB drive loaded with your SVGs and start plotting. bantamtools.com/products/svg...

Plot something personal this Father’s Day.  🖊️🦾 Grab our free plottable coupon book—made for creative dads who love to make—and don’t miss the secret discount code hidden inside. #penplotter bantamtools.com/blogs/blog/f...

Introducing The Bantam Tools ArtFrame™ Panorama a large-format, museum-scale pen plotter that empowers professional artists to create long-format, exhibition-grade physical artwork from digital designs using traditional materials and tools. Get your orders in now! bantamtools.com/products/pan...

seventy two #penplotter

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8"x8" plot. @bantamtools.bsky.social AxiDraw V3/A3 @processing.org code Rotring Isograph pen and ink #plotterart #plotter #creativecoding #genart #generativeart

Happening today at Peekskill Train Station! Catch Bantam Tools and 40+ other local vendors at the Mother’s YAY! Market from 11AM to 4PM at Station Square. Then head up to our Machine Arts Gallery right next to Peekskill Coffee to see Paul Rickards’ solo show, open 10AM to 6PM.

We’ve got a limited batch of professionally refurbished AxiDraw V3 machines—fully tested, updated, and ready to automate your drawing and handwriting projects. Optional upgrades include factory installed coreless or brushless pen-lift servo. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. bantamtools.com

Liminal Tunnel Ink on Paper #p5 #NextDraw

Excited to announce my #PenPlotter artwork will be on view at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill, NY Friday-Sunday during the month of May! There's an opening on Saturday, May 3 from 4-6pm. If you're in the area, stop by and say hi! RSVP: partiful.com/e/HyqDgIQ9Bo...

Introducing Machine Arts Magazine! This new quarterly publication explores the rich intersection of creativity, code, and computer-controlled machines, highlighting the artists, ideas, and innovations shaping the future of machine-assisted expression. Order your copy today on bantamtools.com

🎥 new behind the scenes mini-doc about Harold Cohen: AARON at Whitney Museum bantamtools.com Go behind the scenes of the Bantam Tools ArtFrame™—developed for the landmark Harold Cohen exhibition at the Whitney. It's the solution for artists whose work belongs on the walls of serious collections.

Newest batch of plotted bookmarks using a T(40,80) Truchet tile design. Designed on part with Paragraphic #penplotter #plotterart #

Fungal droplet White Gelly Roll on black cardstock #penplotter #printmaking #art

Plotted my guy Jirachi ⭐👁️ #Pokemon #PenPlotterArt #FanArt

the liquitex in a rotring is very intriguing, be careful with your isographs tho.

A larger multi-tile design Truchet pattern, combining with image-guided algorithmic filling. I thought I'd do the logo for @bantamtools.bsky.social on the first design. Total piece is about 20x20 cm in size, 72.6 meters drawn, 1.5 hours on AxiDraw, red Pilot Precise V5. #plotterart #penplotter

The BUSY plots by James Merrill look incredible in person. They’re like tiny, complex cityscapes nested as tightly as Rube Goldberg machines. Shout out to @jamesmerrill.bsky.social @artblocks.bsky.social @bantamtools.bsky.social

Thanks to @bantamtools.bsky.socialfor letting me try out the ArtFrame. The largest print I’ve dont so far. And all I see are the tiny mistakes I made :). #penplotter #algorists #plotterart #printmaking #artframe

Truchet Tiling powered by a Cellular automaton at its final moments before heat death #creativecoding #cellularautomaton #truchet

I realized that @bantamtools.bsky.social art machines are themselves works of art - with a crew dedicated to the craft and a genuine love for #algorithmicart.

On display at the @bantamtools.bsky.social retail store in Peekskill is The Generative Tree work by Jenn Karson (jennkarson.studio) - looking at leaf damage in Vermont. #sciart #plotterart #penplotter #algorist #gallery

Shout out to the amazing Zach of @bantamtools.bsky.social for welcoming me. Honored to meet @emsl.bsky.social in person.

Putting down the last of 8 ink layers on this album cover commission study. Might just be the final I like it so much. Pilot G2 pens on 12-3/8" square Arches paper. #penplotter #printmaking #albumart #nextdraw

Checked out @bantamtools.bsky.social new shop in Peekskill

Entering my blue phase... Really enjoying working on this Arches paper. I thought the texture would hinder the pens but 2 passes with each color seems to do the trick. 2504.04 Pilot G2 pens and acrylic paint on 10"x14" cold rolled Arches #penplotter #printmaking

A round thing made with #threejs and #glsl and plotted in blue ink on stonehenge. #javascript #generative #drawing #vpype #plotter @bantamtools.bsky.social

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Irregular Rectangular Prisms A5 Pen Plot 2025-02-12 made with NextDraw Interactive in Python #penplotter #plotter #plotterart #art #penplotart #nextdraw @bantamtools.bsky.social

Coded in #javascript and #glsl and plotted with a @bantamtools.bsky.social plotter. #threejs #generativart #drawing #plotter #plotterart

Jenn Karson | The Generative Tree: Life Lines from westchester County on view feb 15 - march 9 opening reception this saturday 2.15 | 4-8pm | at our new gallery at the peekskill flatiron building 12 works | 5 editions available in person & online