Leonardo Solaas: Well, asking for the boundaries of art is always the
That was perhaps bringing along some repetition and a feeling of recurrent déjà vu. But the skills mature and the tools multiply I expect to see a lot of diversity arising as a result of that in the coming years.
occasion for endless argument or utter confusion! I personally think that’s actually a good thing about art that lives in the place of an open question.Jeremy Levine: The seductiveness of complex visual
What all these endeavors have in common, then, is certainly not a style or an agenda, but a very simple, yet very significant thing: the use of rulebased systems. They are a kind of buffer or intermediation between the creator and the finished work, a semiautonomous entity that is set in movement and then left to develop with a certain degree of freedom.
systems has become part of mainstream aesthetics. Generative imagery is used in everything from magazine covers to the motion graphics behind music videos. This can create the sense that generative art is more akin to design than art. Is this distinction important to you? Now, thinking more specifically about what could be “artistic” about generative art, I would like to point to a curious genre that is very common in generativity: the “experiments” those formal and technical explorations that we all do and share with each other, which are not yet art nor design, but a practice that is perhaps more influenced by a
That’s basically all that there is to it. It is not even necessary for software or any kind of digital device to be involved the system can be entirely physical. There are many examples. To cite just a couple of classical ones, there are the drawing machines by Jean Tinguely, or a very minimal, pure case of generative device, the Condensation Cube by Hans Haacke.
scientific paradigm, and usually driven by sheer curiosity and playfulness. We could regard the generative system that is yet on that laboratory phase as more “pure”, in the sense that it hasn’t yet found its place in the world as art, design, architecture, data visualization or whatever application we happen to find for it. But that comes afterwards.
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