Welcome to the third issue of Machine Arts Magazine, our quarterly celebration of the human side of machine-assisted creativity. Each edition explores the evolving dialogue between artists and the technologies they employ, from code to craft, plotters to pens.

This issue features Andee Collard on the cover, with a close look at plotting with paint and the ways watercolor, robotics, and embodied decision making reshape expectations around machine painting.

We sit down with digital art pioneer A. Michael Noll for a reflective conversation spanning the earliest days of computer art to its present trajectories.

Licea He invites us into her living room art factory, a domestic scale studio producing work through repeatable, deliberate processes.

We visit the shared studio of Fison and Rohrbacher, a duo both architects and teachers blending three dimensional CNC woodworking with pen plotters.

A Q and A with MMachine exploring how they are using a CNC originally built to cut sails for tall ships to do massive 6 by 2 meter works of art.

Joel Cammarata contributes an artist statement reflecting on his CAD based practice, mixing pens, paint, and printmaking with machines.

Rounding out the issue, Bre introduces vibe coding for pen plotters, an approachable and playful lens on creative coding workflows, alongside a statement from Maksim Surguy.

Machine Arts Magazine No. 3 continues our mission to document, inspire, and connect a growing global community working at the edges of art, code, and machines.