Craft Lake City and Utah-based digital artist Andrew Jensen have partnered for the latest installation of the seasonal public art exhibition, Celebration of the Hand: Emergence. On view along Broadway (300 S) between 200 W and 200 E, from July through September of 2025, the gallery will feature 14 4×8 framed pieces of Jensen’s generative pen-plotter works. Each piece is made through a series of inputs and lines of code, coming together to create a work of art. The display explores humanity’s relationship with technology. The evolution of designs from the organic to the inorganic. The pieces reflect how intricacy and detailed patterns can come from the simple inputting of lines and code over time and how this can be seen all over in life. From the formulation of ideas and cultures to the designs of ecosystems, at the end of the day they are just a series of inputs changing and evolving over time, and technology is only reflecting that.
The public will also get the chance to participate in a virtual Lunch and Learn on August 27 at (Time). The public online event will give the community the opportunity to discuss the ideas behind the display with Jensen and learn about the artist’s methods.
About the Artist:
Andrew Jensen is a software engineer and creative technologist. He makes code that makes art. His work explores the fuzzy boundaries that exist between opposites: organic and synthetic, analog and digital, order and chaos, nature and computation.
www.andrewjensen.io
About Celebration of the Hand:
Craft Lake City curates this rotating outdoor art exhibition in fourteen metal frames adjacent to the sidewalks in downtown Salt Lake City (located on the north and south sides of Broadway, 300 South, between 200 West and 200 East). Celebration of the Hand installations are open to the public 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and are free of charge.
Celebration of the Hand, made possible with support from The Center for the Living City and The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, designed to enhance and reflect Salt Lake City’s cultural district through the work of Utah artists. It is dedicated to engaging the public in ideas that matter. Informed by activist Jane Jacobs’ fascination with self-organized urbanism, Celebration of the Hand exhibitions focus on conveying central themes and ideas, making them relevant to our community through art.
Timelapse for Flow Fields
Timelapse for Monuments
Timelapse for Reactions
About Craft Lake City: Founded in 2009 by Angela H.Brown, Executive Editor of SLUG (Salt Lake UnderGround) Magazine, Craft Lake City® is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with the mission to educate, promote and inspire local artisans while elevating the creative culture of the Utah arts community through science, technology and art. Craft Lake City strives to further define the term “Craft,” by modernizing the definition for handmade creativity. @craftlakecity craftlakecity.com
About the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change: The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change is a community based, participatory project that uses the ever-changing development processes underway in Salt Lake City as catalysts to animate city life. This museum has no specific address. Rather it is a construction of ideas, installations and illuminations that comprise a new way of seeing our city. museumofchange.org
About The Center for the Living City: The Center for the Living City advocates for vibrant, adaptive, equitable communities created by and for everyone. We work to inspire civic engagement and leadership, invite creative urban solutions, and expand our understanding of the ecology of cities. Our purpose is to advance social, environmental and economic justice. centerforthelivingcity.org @centerforthelivingcity
