Daniel Temkin
Technology Residency

Daniel Temkin makes photographic and computational art exploring logic and human irrationality. At Pioneer Works, he created The Unprintables, a series of digital images that present no consistent digital representation, changing radically at different scales.

Daniel's book Forty-Four Esolangs (MIT Press, 2025) is the first artist’s monograph of programming languages. He writes about language design as an artistic practice for his award-winning blog esoteric.codes, written in residence at the New Museum’s NEW INC incubator and exhibited at ZKM among other institutions. Other work includes Straightened Trees: compulsively straightened photographs and Dither Studies, which presents the fundamental photographic algorithm in triangular and hexagonal pixels. It has been exhibited at Museum of the Moving Image and the Buffalo AKG Museum among other institutions.

His work has been a critic’s pick in the New York Times and Art News. He holds an MFA from ICP/Bard and his work can be seen at danieltemkin.com.