Andreas Gysin
// Biography
Andreas Gysin is renowned for his innovative work in art and design: the fine arts and the useful arts. His work spans various mediums, including interactive installations, kinetic and digital sculptures, and generative art. Often in collaboration with Sidi Vanetti, he has produced works for public space and institutions.
His works have been exhibited internationally, among others at Kunsthalle Zurich, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), the Museum of Digital Art (Zürich), Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival (Johannesburg), Paris Photo, Art Basel, and MUD Gallery (Shanghai).
Works are held in the collections, among others, of the HeK Haus für Elektronische Künste (Basel), the Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich), the Museo d’Arte della Svizzera italiana (Lugano), Kanbas (San Francisco Bay Area), and MUD Gallery (Shanghai).
He has been artist in residence at Pro Helvetia and Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), and taught interaction design and programming at ECAL (Lausanne) and SUPSI (Lugano). Until 2026 he served as a juror on the Federal Design Commission and the Swiss Design Awards.
// Work
Meltdown
- 2023–26
- JavaScript, WebGL, silent, responsive
Meltdown is a generative artwork released as an edition of sixteen pieces. Each piece displays the source code from which it is generated, continuously transforming, melting, and animating it over time. The source code in Meltdown is its implementation but also its form: the source code is simultaneously image, process, and subject. In the latest iteration, a custom syntax highlighter was added: the program highlights its inner workings.
The project was first written in 2023, and is one of the last programs that I wrote entirely by hand. An updated version was presented in Shibuya Tokyo, Japan following an invitation from Noriaki Nakata (NEORT). The current and final version was completed in 2026 exhibited with Nguyen Wahed for Art Basel, Switzerland.
