We have seen dozens of interesting generative art projects as well as artisitic software customization, and collective development. As multimedia art evolves, we can certainly expect see a widespread use of the combination of these three factors in the future.Kaue Costa is a graphic designer, VJ, visual artist, and software developer—which makes him armed with all the prerequisites to tame technology and use it to serve his own creativity. His work ranges from illustrations to live performances and most of them are reactive and closely related to music. In the Live Cinema exhibition that took place in Sao Paulo last year, Kaue presented Thelesmi, an audio-visual performance inspired by the generative alchemical text of the Emerald Tablet. From creating a modular software (RACK), still in development, the artist cultivated a circuit in which images are formed from the sounds of synthetic instruments and informed, as much as possible, from the aesthetics of the text. According to the artist, “concise sentences and visions simply hide a complex nature of alchemy and enable a wide exploration through art and generative recursion.”This year, Kaue is working on Missão Apolo, a collaborative project with João Fryedosa, Joaquim Valente, Jorge Martins, and Ricardo Leite with intergalactic pretensions. The goal of this international collaboration (Brazil, Portugal, and Spain) is the “universal territory” of the dance floor and involves a “communion” of creative disciplines such as music production, software development, and visual creations. The first sounds from the collective can be heard here (mixtape below), and you can see their first experiment with generative images, using the RACK software, in the video above. What makes their aesthetic interesting is how custom built software can be a bridge between musical and visuals, as well as an origin of visual creation, sourced from the music. You never know what exactly caused what. Such confusion is the beauty of generative art.