ABSTRACT
Generative art is an art form that uses the programming language. It is used by artists, designers, and programmers as a medium to create artwork with a digital media platform that has unlimited potential. This article attempts to show the tendency of new media artists to use programming languages, especially creative code such as JavaScript library p5.js as a medium for their works. This article focused on visual artworks of contemporary new media artists who use ideas that develop from images that were previously processed by artists in the field of painting, photography, cinema, and video art. The image can be processed in such a way with computer programming by using the qualitative method, with special attention on technology and how it influences the technicalities and ideas of art medium. The main data for this research is the interview article with a new media artist who uses p5.js, along with literature and journals about media art and computer art history, this research will determine how the artist sees the p5.js as a medium that enriches the new media art and contemporary art in Indonesia.
