More on Generative Art: photographic intermedia works

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More on Generative Art photographic intermedia
works

• SM2220 Generative Art Literature
• January 24, 2008
• Linda Lai

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THREE features of Generative Art

• 1st feature
• Design of structuring device
• rules procedures
• 2nd feature
• Spatial extension establishment of networks
• 3rd feature
• Genetic code of artificial units

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Some differentiations

• Linguistic generators
• Vs
• Situational generators

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• They fought continuously for two hours until red
  was all over the place.
• Linguistic generatorformal
• red as a word
• Situational generatorthematic device
• red as a color, as emotion

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• An exercise
• The base case
• A girl sitting on a chair.
• Apply serial repetition
• using the base case as a linguistic/formal
  generator
• Using the base case as a situational/thematic
  generator

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More principles

• Intertextuality
• The evolvement of the work is externally
  generated
• The rules allow a work to develop from a source
  outside itself

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Discussion

• works
• Olivia Wongs fyp (a video)
• He Aint Heavy, Hes My Father (movie)
• Exercises in Style (a book)

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More principles

• Generation at the formal level
• Generation at the structural level

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Generative Literature Process poem by A.
Leandro from Ponto-Ovum 10
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Discussion

• works
• Bernd and Hilla Becher (Germany)
• photo series topologies, repetitive
  architectural permutations in photo sequence /
  formal generative system
• Lew Thomas (San Francisco, US)
• photo series collage compilation, photo
  sequence / structural generative system
• http//www.lewthomas.com/index.htm

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More principles

• Self-generation

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Discussion

• works
• Sol LeWitt
• Betty Collings Topological model
• -a process in which the artist uses topological
  geometry to transform a minimal organic shape
  into multiple, biomorphic, inflatable forms
  combining and juxtaposing forms to produce sets
  and subsets
• http//www.lewthomas.com/index.htm