# Gilles Dubuc

> Gilles Dubuc is an artist living in the south of France who makes real-time generative artworks: software that generates each image live, by code. He learned to program in the late 1990s in the demoscene, worked for nearly twenty years on platforms for artists (inspi.re, deviantART), and from 2023 to 2026 was the CTO of Layer and co-created the Layer Canvas, a display for living generative art.

Contact: gilles@dubuc.fr, +33 6 30 92 49 03. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillesdubuc/ Credit line for each work: "Gilles Dubuc, <Title>, 2026. Real-time generative artwork."

## Works

- [Latent](https://gilles.dubuc.fr/latent/): Latent shows what a machine sees with its eyes closed: an untrained neural network running on its own currents, traced by a million grains of light.
- [Morphogen](https://gilles.dubuc.fr/morphogen/): Morphogen is a living body that grows by its own rules: an alien tissue of thirty thousand simulated cells, growing under a microscope, drawn in grains of light.
- [Nightglow](https://gilles.dubuc.fr/nightglow/): Nightglow shows the night side of a distant world, generated live by code: the weather of a young giant planet, simulated live, glowing in rings of light.

## Press

- [Press kit](https://gilles.dubuc.fr/press/): texts, details, high-resolution images (lossless WebP and JPEG, in 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1), one-minute videos of the variations, and the films to download.

## In the press

- A New Canvas, a Narrower Frame: Inside Digital Art’s Luxury Makeover Whitehot Magazine, November 2026, by Ken Krantz. On Layer and the Layer Canvas, and their place in the market for digital art. (https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/digital-art-s-luxury-makeover/7056)
- Layer Canvas square QLED: 10,000 zones + Dragonwing QCS8550 GPU, live generative art YouTube, 21 February 2026, by Charbax. An interview with Gilles Dubuc at CES 2026 about the Layer Canvas, its square QLED panel and its live generative art. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3uXdtjk54s)
- Layer Redefines Digital Art for the Luxury Home Resident, 28 January 2026, by Mark Derho. On Layer and the Layer Canvas at home, after CES 2026. (https://resident.com/art-and-culture/2026/01/28/layer-redefines-digital-art-for-the-luxury-home)
- Layer is a new high-tech platform for displaying unique, generative art Wallpaper*, 30 October 2025, by Jonathan Bell. On the Layer Canvas, the display for generative art, and the Layer platform, which Gilles Dubuc co-created as the CTO of Layer. (https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/layer-generative-art-display)
- Layer Canvas Is Revolutionizing How Digital Art Is Displayed Design Milk, 20 October 2025, by Adrian Madlener. On the Layer Canvas, its deep blacks and the artists of Layer. (https://design-milk.com/layer-canvas-is-seamlessly-revolutionizing-how-digital-art-is-displayed/)
- Layer’s industrial design elevates digital art Abduzeedo, 13 August 2025. On the industrial design of the Layer Canvas, by DEMO. (https://abduzeedo.com/layers-industrial-design-elevates-digital-art)
- The founder of DeviantArt is making a $22,000 display for digital art TechCrunch, 5 June 2025, by Amanda Silberling. On the launch of Layer and the Layer Canvas. (https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/the-founder-of-deviantart-is-making-a-22000-display-for-digital-art/)

## Optional

- [Full text for language models](https://gilles.dubuc.fr/llms-full.txt): every essay, the details of each work, and the full narration of each film.