Jan. 23, 2013, 7:23 a.m.
Generative Art Definition
http://www.soban-art.com/definitions.asp
Even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart developed a musical game of dice that contained most of the elements that today are associated with generative tools. The piece carries the explanatory title Composing waltzes with two dices without knowing music or understanding anything about composing. Using this historical example, the methodology of generative art can be appropriately described as the rigorous application of predefined principles of action for the intentional exclusion of, or substitution for, individual aesthetical decisions that set in motion the generation of new artistic content out of material provided for that purpose. To describe this method, musicologists introduced the concept of aleatoric music. The name is derived from the Latin aleator (the dice player), and could not be more appropriate for the above example. In aleatoric music, the principles of chance enter into the composition process. There is no standard artistic position connected with the concept of generative, but rather, a method of artistic work, which was and is employed with the most diverse motives. At the same time, it is interesting to observe that this way of working appears not only in connection with a certain genre, but has in fact established itself in nearly every area of artistic practice as music, literature and fine arts.
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