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Recombinant conversation with four software’s artists

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Limiteazero. Photo Marius Watz

Limiteazero. Photo Marius Watz

Published in Domenico Quaranta (ed), C.STEM. Art Electronic Systems and Software Art, Teknemedia, Turin 2006. Catalogue of the exhibition, Turin, June 1 – 2, 2006.

GENERATIVE ( I N T E R ) VIEWS
Recombinant conversation with four software’s artists

DOMENICO QUARANTA: What is, for you, generative art?

MARIUS WATZ: Generative art is an art practice where the artist uses a set of rules or systems to produce the artwork, usually with some degree of randomness or autonomy. The system is not just a tool, but an artwork in its own right. Instead of a single static object, the process becomes the work. In my own work it means that instead of drawing a picture I create a piece of software that can draw a million pictures, based on rules that I define and experiment with to produce organic results. Some of my works I call “drawing machines”, in reference to the fact that they use dynamic models of kinetic behavior, which can be compared to the act of drawing.

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September 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

GENERATIVE ars

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Published in Domenico Quaranta (ed), C.STEM. Art Electronic Systems and Software Art, Teknemedia, Turin 2006. Catalogue of the exhibition, Turin, June 1 – 2, 2006.

GENERATIVE ars
by Domenico Quaranta

After almost fifty years since the term has first appeared, generative art is still, for the public of art, a mystery. Not that it is difficult to understand it, it is more true the opposite: the problem seems rather to be able to place it within the contemporary art scene. Figures such as Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Joshua Davis, Yugo Nakamura, Marius Watz, John Maeda, Philip Galanter or Golan Levin, who move freely from art to pure programming and to visual design, keep astonishing the public, and the fact that the term “generative art” is used also in relation to music, poetry, architecture and industrial design, doesn’t certainly help to solve the problem.
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September 7th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

C.STEM (2006)

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C.STEM

Art Electronic Systems and Software Art
TURIN, 32 Dicembre / AB+ Club
JUNE 1 – 2, 2006

ORGANIZATION: 32 Dicembre
COORDINATION: Fabio Franchino
PRODUCTION: Teknemedia.net
CONFERENCE: Domenico Quaranta
WEBSITE: cstem.it
CATALOGUE: Edizioni TeKnemedia.net

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September 7th, 2009 at 4:29 pm