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Alida Sun
@alidasun.bsky.social
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Artist & technologist. Hand coded art + critical community care 🌻
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June 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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My solo exhibition of hand coded generative audiovisuals printed in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s spring 2025 newsletter ☀️

Exhibition runs til September 7
ALIDA SUN: BIOPHONY March 8-September 7, 2025 Biophony is a hand-coded generative synesthesia environment created by artist Alida Sun. Grown from an ongoing algorithmic practice of code as embodied ritual and resistance, the audiovisuals evoke local and extinct soundscape ecologies. Creating a sensory space for reflection and respite, Biophony questions how technology may aid in archiving and connecting us with wildlife and the land. Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Julie Ganas, curator of engagement and digital initiatives. WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION Alida Sun, Biophony Synesthesia (silent preview), 2024. Custom software coded in C++. Courtesy of the artist.
April 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Last night I heard a speaker say that facism is when colonialism happens to white people and you can't tell me he's wrong. Shoes, fit, etc.
March 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Installation view of Biophony, my solo exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Biophony is a hand coded generative synesthesia environment. Grateful to the SMoCA team for all their support.

Exhibition runs til Sep 7th ☀️
Installation view of Biophony, solo exhibition and hand-coded generative synesthesia environment by multidisciplinary artist Alida Sun.
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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It means a lot having my first museum solo show opening today 🌞
Exhibition text via Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Happy International Women’s Day 🌎🌍🌏
Biophony is a hand-coded generative synesthesia environment created by Berlin-based artist Alida Sun. Grown from an ongoing algorithmic practice of code as embodied ritual and resistance, the audiovisuals evoke local and extinct soundscape ecologies. Creating a sensory space for reflection and respite, Biophony questions how technology may aid in archiving and connecting us with wildlife and the land. Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Julie Ganas, curator of engagement and digital initiatives.
March 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Me
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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@danielkantor.bsky.social and I are planning something 🦾🖤
February 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Throwback to that time when I snuck in “Don’t Trust Secret Algorithms” on a billboard in Times Square 🗽
Public art billboard display in Times Square, New York City. Artwork by Alida Sun
February 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Tactical fiber configuration
The fact that dudes go on a diet but they call it "biohacking" is so funny to me. Like if men started knitting they would call it "hyper threading" or "powertangling" or some shit
February 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Microsoft study finds Al makes human cognition "atrophied and unprepared" This atrophied and dependent version of yourself is exactly what they're engineering.
February 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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WHAT THEY ARE COMFORTABLE DOING TO OTHERS THEY WILL BE COMFORTABLE DOING TO YOU
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Nan Goldin, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭
January 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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h/t @hrag.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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As we break, we morph
Hand coded #generativeart
Hand coded generative abstract black and white artwork with textured digital artifacts of emerging natively digital forms, NOT skeuomorphic imitation of wall works from 70 years ago. Art by Alida Sub, part of an ongoing open ended daily series of coding as ritual.
December 14, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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After my hand coded art got flagged as “inappropriate” and “inciting violence” on the neighboring app, it went on public display in Tokyo.

All thanks to Japan Generative Art Foundation & TOP Museum for supporting my salacious, dangerous code.
Hand coded generative art O Sea Sunbirds on view in Tokyo on a large scale screen. Artwork by Alida Sun. Curated by Japan Generative Art Foundation and TOP Museum.
December 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Biomimicry drawing of bird flight patterns, hand coded in C++
Hand coded generative biomimicry art modeled after the flight patterns of birds created by Alida Sun
December 11, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Generative Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics simulation (hand coded, not AI)
Hand coded generative digital fluid dynamics art experiment by Alida Sun
December 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Biomimicry sketch of bird flight patterns. Hand coded in C++
Hand coded generative biomimicry art modeled after the flight patterns of birds. By Alida Sun
December 6, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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My hand coded interactive sound art published in “Tracing the Line: The Art of Drawing Machines & Pen Plotters”
Black and white photograph of an art book open to pages that feature the work of Alida Sun’s somatic noise experiment plotter art, where each drawing becomes an abstract portrait/signature of sound, light & movement by human & machine
December 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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Little kid in Tokyo interacting with my code art (≧∇≦)/
Small child in Tokyo playing and interacting with colorful hand coded generative art homage to computer art pioneer & philosopher Hiroshi Kawano. The art is displayed on a massive screen in a pubic square in an exhibit from Tokyo’s TOP Museum. Art by Alida Sun
November 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Biomimicry drawing of bird flight patterns. Hand coded in C++
Hand coded generative biomimicry art modeled after the flight patterns of birds. By Alida Sun
November 26, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Hand coded wind drawings
November 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Behold the criminal mastermind
Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it's Al generated and thus inadmissible as evidence.
November 25, 2023 at 9:41 AM
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Art Forum alongside some stellar generative artists ☀️
October 3, 2023 at 4:48 PM