Paul Prudence

Paul Prudence is a British artist based in London who works with computational and generative systems. He studied textile design at the University of Manchester and came to computer programming in his late twenties. Since October 2004 he has run Dataisnature, a research outlet on generative art, natural processes and computational systems, and he writes for the magazines HOLO and Neural. Prudence is known for live audiovisual performance, including the immersive dome piece Lumophore II, performed at the Elektra festival in Montreal in 2015, and for Bioacoustic Phenomena, made with Francisco Lopez. In 2022 he published Figured Stones: Exploring The Lithic Imaginary with Corbel Stone Press, a book on geology drawing on patterns he found in rock as a child. He released Microscapes, Telekia and Terra Nullius on objkt in 2025, and HOLO Stratigraphy, a concrete poetry piece typed on a 1950 Olivetti typewriter, was issued as a limited artist edition in January 2026.