bitforms gallery is pleased to present a Los Angeles-based exhibition developed in collaboration with Rip Space and co-curated by Vera Petukhova, marking the first in a series of joint projects between the two spaces. Continuum features artwork by Daniel Canogar, Nat Decker, Aurora Mititelu, Casey Reas, and Sarah Rothberg. The exhibition is structured as a constellation of discrete environments. Five different artists come together, each occupying an individual space that functions as a distinct system or platform for their work.

Continuum coincides with bitforms gallery’s 25th anniversary, underscoring its long-standing commitment to artists working at the forefront of technology and contemporary art. Since its founding, the gallery has supported established, mid-career, and emerging practitioners engaged with digital, internet-based, and time-based media, advancing the collection and critical reception of works that are often ephemeral, process-driven, and resistant to traditional forms of display. The partnership pairs bitforms’ long-standing engagement with the histories and infrastructures of digital and time-based work with Rip Space’s fluid, process-driven emphasis on experimentation and ideas in motion, bringing stability and disruption into dialogue as presentation and process unfold simultaneously. In doing so, the exhibition traces an intergenerational continuum, positioning media art as an active, distributed exchange, continually transforming modes of production, circulation, and reception.

The 25 years of bitforms’ gallery history has foregrounded artists who have defined generative and software-based practices. Pioneers such as Daniel Canogar, who has worked with generative algorithms and real-time data for over two decades, and Casey Reas, whose work is widely regarded to be a cornerstone of software-based art, and who established the foundations for understanding code as a time-based medium. Reas, alongside Ben Fry, co-developed Processing, a critical tool that has shaped how contemporary artists create with code as a medium.

Building on this legacy, Sarah Rothberg has spent over a decade working across AI, large language models, and immersive, interactive environments, developing a distinct approach to virtual reality and generative systems. Together, these artists have advanced the field and also expanded how collectors engage with and understand software-driven work. Their influence extends into a new generation of artists, including Aurora Mititelu and Nat Decker, who work with and beyond tools such as Processing’s creative coding software to develop their own technical languages and methodologies. These artists actively reshape the possibilities of generative and software-based media through interdisciplinary practices that expand both the tools themselves and the conceptual frameworks of the field.

Artists Daniel Canogar, Nat Decker, Aurora Mititelu, Casey Reas, and Sarah Rothberg demonstrate how experimentation and critical engagement can unfold in real time, foregrounding process as an active and visible condition of contemporary media art.