Jan. 23, 2013, 7:23 a.m.
Generative Art Definition
http://www.soban-art.com/definitions.asp
Aaron (celebrated art making program) was clearly not a tool in an orthodox sense. It was closer to being a sort of assistant, if the need for an human analogue persist, but not an assistant which could learn what I wanted done by looking at what I did myself, the way any of Rubens assistants could see perfectly well for themselves what a Rubens painting was supposed to look like. A computer is not a human being. But it is the case, presumably, that any entity capable of adapting its performance to circumstances which were unpredictable when its performance began exhibits intelligence: whether that entity is human or not. We are living on the crest of a cultural shock-wave of unprecedented proportions, which thrusts e new kind of entity into our world: something less than human, perhaps, but potentially capable of many of the higher intellectual functions we have supposed to be uniquely human. We are in the process of coming to terms with the fact that intelligence no longer means, uniquely, human intelligence.
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