Simon Alexander-Adams is a multimedia artist and designer specializing in real-time generative art, interactive installations, and audiovisual performance. He is best known for his daily generative art sketching practice of over eight years under the pseudonym Polyhop. He is inspired by the emergent patterns found in nature and frequently uses complex systems to simulate natural phenomena in the pursuit of organic textures and surprising interactions. He also draws on a love of fractals, geometry, science fiction, and glitch art (the aesthetics of failure).
As part of the ARTECHOUSE Studio team, he created work in collaboration with NASA, the Society for Neuroscience, HARPA (Reykjavik, Iceland), and the Nobel Prize Museum (Stockholm, Sweden). His work has also been presented at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen, China), the Expo Sunderland Pavilion (UK), Wintercircus Ghent (Belgium), and Cinema Mystica (Budapest, Hungary).
Active in the TouchDesigner community, Simon has led workshops on complex systems at TouchDesigner Summit 2019 in Montreal and on game design at TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024, exhibited in the art gallery at TouchDesigner Event Tokyo 2025, and regularly shares tutorials, examples, and tools online.
Contact: simon @ simonaa . media