Monday, May 21, 2007

It's Almost All Ideas


GENERATIVE ART

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"Generative Art is the idea realized as genetic code of artificial objects.

Generative project is a concept - software that works producing three-dimensional, unique and non-repeatable events as possible and manifold expressions of the generating idea identified by the designer as a visionary world.

This Idea / human creative act renders explicit and realizes an unpredictable, amazing and endless expansion of human creativity. Computers are simply the tools for its storage in memory and execution.

This approach opens a new era in design and industrial production: the challenge of a new naturalness of the industrial object as a mirror of Nature.

Once more man emulates Nature, as in the act of making Art.

This approach suddenly opened the possibility to rediscover possible fields of human creativity that would be unthinkable without computer tools. If these tools, at the beginning of the computer era, seemed to extinguish the human creativity, today, with generative tools, directly operate on codes of Harmony and on codes of Identity.

They become tools that open new fields and enhance our understanding of creativity as an indissoluble synthesis between art and science.
After two hundred years of the old industrial era of necessarily cloned objects, the one-of-a-kind object becomes an essential answer to emergent aesthetical needs."

- Celestino Soddu, chairman of Generative Art Conferences

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is very close to the meme-ideas I mentioned to you and Lucas last night... :)

I like the way the speaker puts it here...

Anonymous said...

I keep coming back to this drawing - I love it...

it reminds me of the ex-pat dadaists' stuff when they were in NYC in the 20's

http://tinyurl.com/2hmu3o

... or early Eva Hesse

http://tinyurl.com/yrfwh6


It makes me think of some sort of gentle idea factory...