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In the Tech Heart of Texas, an Art Show Built on Data, Code and A.I.

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are commemorating the past as they move into the future. Days before hundreds of thousands of people crowded into...

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In the Tech Heart of Texas, an Art Show Built on Data, Code and A.I.

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In the Tech Heart of Texas, an Art Show Built on Data, Code and A.I.

The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.

“Heads-Tails” by Madeline Hollander

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Compiled by Manny Alcala Via Blanton Museum Of Art

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Jillian Anthony

Reporting from Austin, Texas

April 15, 2026

This article is part of our

Museums special section

about how institutions are commemorating the past as they move into the future.

Days before hundreds of thousands of people crowded into downtown Austin for the annual tech-driven South by Southwest festival, the Blanton Museum of Art took a timely step: It opened an exhibition of digital art.

That exhibition, “

Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded

,” showcases some 20 pieces of digital art, all borrowed from the collection of the

Thoma Foundation

, a nonprofit started by the Dallas art collectors Carl and Marilynn Thoma — who, incidentally, made their fortune investing in software.

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“Machine Hallucinations — Study 1,” by Refik Anadol, presents a swirl of liquid-like images resembling Gothic architecture, eternally torn down and rebuilt, informed by thousands of photos of real buildings.

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Refik Anadol via Blanton Museum of Art

All the works featured were created between 2004 and 2022 — the “post-social media era,” as Hannah Klemm, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art, put it.

Wandering through the galleries, visitors can stand in front of a wall of sculptural, blinking car headlights; see a digitally created oil slick on the Nile River; or gaze into mesmerizing, color-changing shapes.

The artist and art collectives featured — including well-known names like teamLab, Leo Villareal and Marina Zurkow — all use either data, coding or both to shape how their works appear, change and interact with museum-goers, while just one artist, Refik Anadol, uses generative A.I.

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