William Mapan Debuts Live Plotter Series at Art Basel
William Mapan Debuts Live Plotter Series at Art Basel
🖨️ Algorithms Meet Ink
Artist William Mapan is presenting Dances on Shadows (DOS), a live plotter series at Art Basel's Zero 10 booth (Z13) from June 16-21, 2026.
What's happening:
- DOS extends Mapan's Paysages Plausibles series, revealing hidden structures through plotter-rendered contours and repetition
- Visitors can explore the generative system on-site, select iterations, and watch them rendered in real-time by machine plotters
- The exhibition includes hand-painted oil works, plotter drawings, and a live generator
The concept: While Paysages Plausibles constructs speculative territories using overlapping shapes and natural pigments, DOS traces the "movements, traces, and residual energies" within those landscapes.
Mapan developed the algorithm over nine months of research, bridging traditional sketchpad work with computational design. Selected outputs can be purchased and plotted live at the booth.
Willam Mapan @ArtBasel Zero 10 Samples from the live plotter series: Paysages Plausibles: Dances on Shadows (DOS) "Where Paysages Plausibles investigates the construction of speculative territories, DOS follows the movements, traces, and residual energies that inhabit them —
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