Like the best bars in Milan or San Francisco, ARTEX has two menus.
The signature list, and the R&D menu.
The signature list is what is proven. What people come back for, what can be trusted at any hour. The R&D menu is where intuition moves faster than structure: a seasonal experiment, a shift in technique, a question that came up during a late-night session. It exists briefly, recorded like a lab note in motion. The favorites get refined into the signature list. Until then, the menu is an open laboratory. Fluid, iterative, intentionally unfinished.
ARTEX works the same way. And today, both menus are open to you.
Where this comes from
CODAME has been running this experiment for fifteen years: bringing people from art, technology, and everywhere in between into the same room, in a spirit of curiosity, generosity, and creative risk. San Francisco. Milan. Online and off. A community built on the conviction that art and technology can belong together. For us, diversity is where the magic comes from. The more different the people, disciplines, and backgrounds in the room, the more interesting what gets made.
ARTEX is what happens when that conviction becomes infrastructure.
It started at a hackathon, chasing one specific idea: how living art could outlast the hardware it runs on. That idea still holds. But we listened to you, and we pivoted to something harder and more important: making what CODAME has done for fifteen years replicable. A platform for any organization that believes art belongs at the edges of technology. Not as decoration, not as content, but as a first-class participant in what gets built.
That is ARTEX. A platform for living art, where any organization can run its programs, any artist can publish their practice, and any collector can join in and support the work.
The signature list
What is built, and not an experiment:
Artists own their work and keep 100% of their copyright. They keep the long-term value of what they create. No AI training on their work without explicit written consent. Every program publishes its split on its public page before submissions open. No per-artist overrides. No surprises at settlement.
CODAME’s own programs on ARTEX pay the same published rates as any other organization. That is not a courtesy. It is enforced in the fee schedule itself.
The R&D menu
What is open in the lab right now:
Shader parameter binding. Your work responds to sound, motion, and live data in real time. In testing.
Venue lighting as output. WLED, Philips Hue, LIFX, Nanoleaf. Work that fills a room, not just a screen. Open source, community contributed.
Print Club. Living work becomes a physical limited edition, and the prints keep evolving. Collectors vote. Artists get paid. Running now on codame.org with ARTEX underneath.
Multi-organization surfacing. Every organization that joins can surface artists from across the platform. Each new org is a new community, new collectors, new context for your practice. This is the multiplier that makes the ecosystem worth building together.
Provenance on every package. Creative lineage made visible and creditable. Structure, not policy.
The experiments that resonate graduate into the signature list.
Who this is for
Artists. Publish your practice, on your terms. No gallery, no approval process, no technical prerequisite. Your IP stays yours, and every organization that joins the platform is a new place your work can be surfaced. Artist is a mindset before it is a job title: fine artists, generative artists, designers who code, developers with a creative practice. You belong here.
Organizations. Run your programs on shared infrastructure. Festivals, nonprofits, galleries, art programs: bring your community and run your events, exhibitions, and artist programs without rebuilding the scaffolding every time. CODAME runs its programs here. You can too.
Collectors and patrons. Follow a practice, not just a moment. Discover work as it evolves, support artists directly, and become part of how a practice grows.
Venues and event makers. Connect your space to a living ecosystem. Host exhibitions and installations with artists and organizations already working here, and reach an audience that is already present and engaged.
The whole picture, on one page: codame.com/artex#about
The door is open
This is not a waitlist.
Create your profile today. It is free, and it is your permanent home on the platform. Browse the artists and living work already here, follow practices as they evolve, collect, vote, and join programs. Organizations can apply to run their programs on ARTEX now.
ARTEX Studio, the toolset for building interactive living work, opens by invitation, and we are expanding it. Register, tell us about your practice, and we will be in touch.
This is just the beginning. Every artist, organization, and collector who joins now expands what is possible, and shapes what ARTEX becomes. Just as you shaped CODAME.
We built this because of you. Come into the lab.
With full transparency and with love for what you make,
The CODAME team
Built by artists. For artists. Since 2010. Now with room for everyone.
ARTEX, The Art Experience · 100% artist copyright retained · No AI training without consent