Jan. 23, 2013, 4:12 a.m.
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enerative art is a contested term but for my purposes refers to artwork that is broadly rule-based, a further understanding of which has been informed by the co-curation of touring exhibition Generator (with Spacex Gallery, UK). The exhibition title generator describes the person, operating system or things that generates the artwork, sh9ifting attention to the interaction not separation of these productive processes. Significantly, once the rules have been set, the process of production is unsupervised, and appears self-organising, though only if knowledge of other aspects is suspended. As a result, although generative art might appear autonomous and out of control, ...
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Jan. 23, 2013, 3:49 a.m.
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Generative art describes a strategy for artistic practice, not a style or genre of work. The artist describes a rule-based system external to him/herself that either produces works of art or is itself a work of art. I agree with Philip Galanter that work with generative qualities can be found throughout art history, but I typically use the term to describe computer-based work created from the 1960s to today. I consider much of the work in abstract painting and sculpture done in the 1960s as essential for the understanding of generative art. For the term generative art to have any ...
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Jan. 23, 2013, 3:47 a.m.
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System usage is identified initially as a key element in generative art. This leads to the adoption of complexity, order and disorder as efficacious organizing principles in the comparison of several generative systems of art. The trace of definition of generative art is the preference the artist establishes in a system, that can generate a number of possible forms, and better than a single terminated form. The artists role is to build, begin or merely select the frame of procedures to generate possible expressions and, for this, the visual aspect may or may not be determining.
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Jan. 23, 2013, 3:45 a.m.
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Generative art is a term given to work which stems from concentrating on the processes involved in producing an artwork, usually (although not strictly) automated by the use of a machine or computer, or by using mathematic or pragmatic instructions to define the rules by which such artworks are executed. (Adrian Ward)
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Jan. 23, 2013, 3:42 a.m.
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Generative software art, as it is usually understood today, is artwork which uses mathematical algorithms to automatically or semi-automatically generate expressions in more conventional artistic forms. For example, a generative program might produce poems, or images, or melodies, or animated visuals. Usually, the objective of such a program is to create different results each time it is executed. And generally, it is hoped that these results have aesthetic merit in their own right, and that they are distinguishable from each other, in interesting ways. Some generative art operates completely autonomously, while some generative artworks also incorporate inputs from a user, ...
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