GHOST in the MACHINE

the marriage of software & art

Defining Generative Art

Pre-Digital Precedences

Dadaist Poetry (Tristan Tzara) 1920
Aleatoric Music (John Cage) 1951
Happenings (Alan Kaprow) 1959
Cut-Up Method (Brion Gysin & William Burroughs) 1959
Instruction-Based Drawing (Sol LeWitt) 1960s
Graphic Design Manual (Armin Hofmann) 1965

Generative Art

[text]
Permutations (Florian Cramer)
The Postmodernism Generator (Andrew C. Bulhak, Josh Larios)
SCIgen (Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, Dan Aguayo)
Emotion Fractal (Jared Tarbell)

[graphic design]
Mapmaker (Josh Davis, Jemma Gura)
n-Gen (Move Design) | [static example]

[image]
Synesthetic Bubblegum Cards (Curt Cloninger)
A Portrait of Netochka Nezvanova (Adrian Ward) | [static example]

[audio]
Random Access Mortality (MTAA)
Generative Music 1 (Brian Eno)

[abstract visuals]
Vitaflo: Version 8 (Brent Gustafson)
210 * Articulate (Casey Reas)
Peter De Jong * Substrate * Intersection Aggregate (Jared Tarbell) [cf: a critical defense]

Reactive Art

[text]
Vaionet100-Study (Yugo Nakamura)

[images]
Pianographique (Jean-Luc Lamarque et al.)
Quicktime 0.0 (Yugo Nakamura)

[abstract visuals]
Line X 50 (Yugo Nakamura)
flock (Robert Hodgin)
amoebaAbstract01_variant (Marius Watz)
re:move 04 * doubleCell contribution (lia)
Black Ribbon (Yugo Nakamura)
Yellowtail (Golan Levin)

[audio]
Sonic Wire Sculpture (Amit Pitaru)
square 4/4 b * nitter n*9 (Peter Luining)

Static Output

Joshua Davis
Jared Tarbell
Casey Reas (cf: bitforms)

Summary

John Cage Gets the Last Word
selected artist sites
additional resources
contact: curt at lab404.com