Software Aesthetics

Visual forms of computer art

• Art, aesthetics and computers
  • Psychology of art, experimental aesthetics, mathematical beauty
  • Gustav Fechner, Roger Caillois, Max Bense, Abraham Moles
• Art & design forms
  • Figuration — CGI, NPR
  • Abstraction — function graphs, shape grammars, visual languages, fractal art
  • Improvisation — action painting, glitch art
  • Mathematics and art — perspective, anamorphosis, polyhedra, graphs, knots, surfaces, manifolds, fractals, tessellation, non-Euclidean geometry
• Evolutionary forms
  • Bio art, evolutionary art, artificial life
  • Turing patterns, L-systems, cellular automata, biomorphs
  • Authorship issues
• Replicated forms
  • Photorealism, remix culture, mashup, remediation
  • Originality issues
• Random forms
  • Aleatoricism, informalism, fractal landscape

Discussion

• Are Algorithms Conceptual Art’s Next Frontier? (Nicholas O’Brien)
• On Generative Algorithms (Anders Hoff)
• Aesthetic Appreciation of Mathematical Objects & Constructs (Matthew Turner)
• Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art (Jon McCormack)
• Mathematical Art Galleries (The Bridges Organization)
• Your Five Year Old Couldn't Paint This (AmorSciendi)

Assignment

Digital improvisation

FlashPollock – Flow – JacksonPollock – Neonflames – Noize Sparks – Pollock – Pollock2 – Pollock App – PseudoPollock – QTFeedback – RandomArt – Sandbox – ScribblerToo – Silk – Suprematism – Syfluid – Viscosity

 

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