Monday, March 17, 2014

aesthetics design class - lecture 3

This is more re-use some of the quotes from a undergraduate class that taught by Geoff Cox (my supervisor). The topic is generative art.

- Digital poem and Dadaist poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBS-9Tm7EmQ
> from the instruction of making a dadaist poem, there is a line "shake it gently"-> relate to the random function in software programming

- "Philip Galanter describes generative art as "any art practice where the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to, or resulting in, a completed work of art""  (see ref: http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz06/essays/the-aesthetics-of-generative-literature-lessons-from-a-digital-writing-workshop.html)

- The notion to support generative art as the combination of human and nonhuman: "Generative art is a term given to work usually (although not exclusively) automated by the use of a machine or computer, or by using mathematic or pragmatic instructions to define the rules by which the artwork is executed. After the initial parameters have been set by an artist / programmer the process of production is unsupervised, and, as such, 'self-organising' and 'time-based'. Work literally 'grows' autonomously, according to the innate properties of the chosen technology or the particular circumstances in which the instructions are carried out. The outcome of this process of 'complexity' is thus unpredictable, and could be described as being integral to the 'nature' of that technology, or situation, rather than simply the product of individual human agency or authorship. " / "Generator serves to throw emphasis on processes, unfolding in real-time, rather than end products or the dead-end commodity form of art. " (see ref: http://generative.net/generator/) 

-Sol Lewitt: “The idea becomes the machine that makes the art”

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