GENUM

May 6, 2013, 5:02 a.m.

Software and generative strategies in art and design

http://www.generatorx.no/

Generator. x 3.0: From Code to Atoms (slideshow of gx30 tag on Flickr) Generator. x 3.0: From Code to Atoms Feb 18-26, 2012 at iMal, Brusselshttp://www. imal. org/en/activity/generatorx3 The Generator. x 3.0: From Code to Atoms workshop at iMAL, Brussels culminated last Friday in an exhibition of works created during the week. As expected there is a wide range of works and expressions, from Makerbotted data sculptures (Frederik Vanhoutte, Andrej Boleslavsky, Katerina Konstantopoulos + Erato Choli) to distorted 3D scanned objects (Matthew Plummer-Fernandez) and parametric paper folding (Julien Deswaef). For a complete overview of the workshop and its results, take ...

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May 6, 2013, 4:56 a.m.

__The Leonardo Book Series__

http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/grau.html

Virtual Art From Illusion to Immersion Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 "The Battle of Sedan," Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema ...

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