Wayward by Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar’s exhibition “Wayward” at LACMA showcases his algorithm-driven artwork that transforms daily journalistic photos into unique compositions, reflecting on the impact of digital manipulation on visual arts.
The opening of Wayward by Daniel Canogar at LACMA is set to take place as part of the exhibition Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film. This marks Conagar’s first exhibition at LACMA, one of the most renowned museums in the USA.
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film offers a comprehensive exploration of how image-editing software has reshaped our visual landscape over the past four decades. This exhibition highlights the profound influence of digital manipulation tools, from the 1980s to the present, and how they have facilitated innovative creative experimentation across photography, graphic design, and visual effects.
With over 150 works on display, and featuring nearly 200 artists, designers, and creators, the exhibition delves into the emergence of unique digital aesthetic strategies and their relationship to realism and narrative.
Wayward
Wayward reflects Canogar’s artistic vision of our current times, blending digital and journalistic approaches. The piece is powered by an algorithm that collects daily journalistic photos and transforms them into artistic compositions. The complexity of Wayward lies in its 600 algorithmic rules, which dictate how images are organized on the screen. Canogar and his team spent approximately a year developing this work, which has the capacity to generate up to 2 million different combinations.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter College of Design will present Digital Witness: Algorithmic Spaces for Typography and Language from November 13, 2024, through April 27, 2025.
Daniel Canogar
Born in Madrid in 1964 to an American mother and a Spanish father, Daniel Canogar has forged a career that spans both Spain and the United States. He began his artistic journey with photography, earning an M.A. from NYU’s International Center of Photography in 1990, before shifting his focus to projected images and installation art.
Canogar is renowned for his permanent public art installations featuring LED screens, including Pulsation (2023) at Nike’s World Headquarters in Oregon, Brushstrokes (2022) at DeKa Bank in Frankfurt, and Dynamo (2021) for the Spain Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020. His other notable works include Currents in Kassel, Aqueous in Mountain View, and Pulse at Texas A&M University.
He has also created monumental artworks in various media, such as Malestrom San Fernando and Scrawl in Madrid, as well as generative animations projected on prominent façades, including the Novartis Pavilion in Basel and the Museo Nacional del Prado. His series Asalto features video projections on iconic monuments across several cities.
Canogar’s solo exhibitions include At Any Given Hour (2024) in Frankfurt, Vestigios (2023) in Santander, and Pixelweaver (2023) in New York. His work has been showcased in major institutions worldwide, including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Since 2010, Canogar has been an associate professor in the Architecture Program at IE University in Madrid, where he leads an Experimentation Workshop focused on the intersection of architecture, technology, and art. He also teaches in the Curatorial Studies Program at the University of Navarra and became an academic member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2022.