Miguel Ripoll

Miguel Ripoll began working with human-machine dialogue in 1999, using linguistic and programming methodologies to engage critically with algorithmic systems. His practice preceded current "Al art" discourse by decades, building on foundational research into generative coding and digital design.

His early generative pieces were exhibited at the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), and the Cervantes Institute, with works now held in permanent collections including the Design Museum in Barcelona.

Miguel's work explores the tension between computational logic and embodied drawing, but also between the inherited past and our unstable present. Using AI-generated fragments sourced from public-domain archives, he develops large-scale phygital works that critically engage with history, tradition, craft, authorship, and machine vision.

Through digital collage, manipulation, and hand drawing, he reworks these fragments into singular hand-crafted paper-based pieces that question authorship, attention, and cultural memory. Rather than embracing algorithmic efficiency, his process emphasises slowness, friction, and care, engaging with visual languages from across art history and decoding contemporary data to explore how technologies mediate perception and meaning.