Jan. 23, 2013, 7:27 a.m.
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Generative Art: Process by which a computer creates unique works from fixed parameters defined by the artist. The result can range from an engaging screensaver to a jazz solo to a lush virtual world. The visual application of generative art is newer, however. In the mid-1970s British abstract painter Harold Cohen plugged in his palette and designed AARON, a computer artist that produces original work. Since then, generative techniques have been used to grow artificial life based on genetic algorithms and massively complex virtual worlds that take infinitely longer than seven days to create by hand. But whatever the output, ...
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Jan. 23, 2013, 7:27 a.m.
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Generative Art - "A form of geometrical abstraction in which a basic element is made to ' generate' other forms by rotation, etc. of the initial form in such a way as to give rise to an intricate design as the new forms touch each other, overlap, recede or advance with complicated variations. A lecture on 'Generative Art Forms' was given at the Queen's University, Belfast Festival in 1972 by the Romanian sculptor Neagu, who also founded a Generatiave Art Group. Generative art was also practised among others by Eduardo McEntyre and Miguel ngel Vidal [1928- ] in the Argentine."
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Jan. 23, 2013, 7:23 a.m.
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Until 100 years ago every musical event was unique: music was ephemeral and unrepeatable, and even classical scoring couldn't guarantee precise duplication. Then came the gramophone record, which captured particular performances and made it possible to hear them identically over and over again. But Koan and other recent experiments like it are the beginning of something new. From now on there are three alternatives: live music, recorded music and generative music. Generative music enjoys some of the benefits of both its ancestors. Like live music, it is always different. Like recorded music, it is free of time-and-place limitations- you can ...
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Jan. 23, 2013, 7:23 a.m.
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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 ...
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Jan. 23, 2013, 7:23 a.m.
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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 ...
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