v3ga — Julien Gachadoat

Julien Gachadoat (aka v3ga) has been exploring generative drawing for many years. He grew up in the 90s amid the avant-garde demo scene, making visuals with code. Ever since, programming languages have been his creative tool.

Creating unique art with algorithms, he works with the emergence of abstract form. Combining monochrome, geometric shapes, he plays with repetition, using random operations to generate an element of surprise. Julien Gachadoat uses the computer - "this unique performer" (Vera Molnár) - to develop his own creative tools based on simple graphic rules, and then to explore the formal possibilities that ensue. By printing these unique pieces with a plotter, he creates a link between text and code, between computer and pencil, and between the rigour of code and the poetry of art. "To leave a unique mark, aesthetically palpable, that is not in defiance, but rather in aid of the digital": this is his philosophy.

Gachadoat has developed an international following through social media. Constantly looking to work with others in new ways, he has also created a series of silkscreen prints with Atelier SerreJoint in La Rochelle, as well as drawings with an industrial robot in collaboration with AATB studio, Marseille.

In 2021 he began to explore the field of crypto art, with a view to making moving images. His work was showcased on ArtBlocks in May 2021; in the -GRAPH exhibition, organised by Casey Reas on Feral File, in November 2021; and at the Cortesi gallery in Milan in 2022. In the same year, he participated in the tribute to Herbert W. Franke.

In 2023, Structures, which set NFTs alongside drawings, was presented on Plottables, while Pathways made its debut in London at Verse gallery. At the end of the year, as well as participating in the +GRAPH exhibition on Feral File, Gachadoat had the honour of meeting Vera Molnár — one of his great sources of inspiration - in person.