Published January 25, 2026
| Version v2
Dataset
Open
Public Source Code with Artistic Intent
Authors/Creators
- 1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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2.
Université de Montréal
- 3. University of Havana
- 4. Inria
- 5. Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Description
This dataset is provided by Software Heritage Archive. We designed a heuristic to identify and extract repositories that are related to artistic coding practices. Through iterative discussions with experts in the field of generative art, we defined a list of 32 signals (topics) used to detect art-related source code. The list is available online:
Art in humanity's code repository
NOTE: Some of the source repositories are not longer available on their original hosting platforms, however their contents are preserved and it can be accessible through the Software Heritage Archive
This dataset was created in July 2025.
Files
generative_art_dataset.json
Files
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Additional details
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/sparkrew/art-in-swh
- Programming language
- Python , JavaScript