Public Source Code with Artistic Intent

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.