Thomas noya

Thomas Noya is an artist who creates generative works using code. He has published projects on the fx(hash) platform, including the series `a fortiori` and `CIUDAD CENTRAL`, from which this collection holds several examples. His public profile offers the singular description of his practice as ‘Artist’, directing attention towards the output of his systems based on code rather than on biographical detail. The works are produced for display on a screen and for interaction, with their source code often made available under a public license.

Noya’s practice is grounded in software, using the p5.js library to construct his generative systems. For the series `a fortiori`, produced with TENDER, the artist builds an engine for the visual deconstruction and reassembly of light. This process uses algorithmic loops and controlled random variables to produce repetitive marks, which accumulate into what he terms the "tangible shards of each spark". While each execution of the code generates a unique composition, all outputs are governed by the same underlying logic. The artist also provides viewers with keyboard commands to control the animation and to save static images at high resolution.

The conceptual focus of Noya’s work is energy, with light serving as its primary visual analogue. He situates his work within a long art historical lineage of attempts to render luminescence, citing the dramatic lighting of Caravaggio and Picasso’s photographic drawings with light. Noya’s approach is specific to the digital screen, aiming to capture what he describes as the "nearly intangible intensity of light" by assembling myriad small marks. The resulting images are moments of captured energy, their brilliance generated by and for the screen itself, presenting a sum greater than its constituent parts.