Generative Art

ジェネラティブアート / 1965– / Style / Computational Expression

Art that delegates production to rule and randomness, the artist designing the system. From Nees's and Molnár's plotter drawings, coded repetition and chance became the source of design's generative methods.

Rule and randomness together / The plotter's line / Variation through repetition / The work as system

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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Georg Nees / Vera Molnár / Processing and creative coding

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