generative

Originally posted on Substack It’s a great time to be a creator. Trust your creativity. -Ron Howard Reflecting on the past year.. {{ youtube OFI1FJcGLeM }} The Art of John Edmark What do plants know about numbers? A certain spiral pattern commonly seen in sunflowers, pinecones, and many species of cacti contains some surprising numerical properties. In this brisk talk, Paul Dancstep investigates this pattern through several kinetic sculptures by artist John Edmark....

Originally posted on Substack “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” -Ken Robinson I’ve had a number of requests and personal interest where 3D imagery is used to create generative art. So I hope that this is beneficial. Generative art can be done in almost every application. You will find that it can be done in Photoshop, using code, using simply code in the browser, or just by hand as one of my fellow generative artists (Dan Gries) has done....

Originally posted on Substack If it doesn’t fit comfortably within your heart, let it go. - Toni Sorenson Well its been a little over a month since the last newsletter has gone out. There are just too many things to get done in a day. Also, I have been working at making the links from the last 40+ newsletters in one place so that they are more accessible. Right now they are just a Markdown page but hopefully will give this a little more structure as well....

Originally posted on Substack The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery -Francis Bacon Hello Friends, It’s been another couple weeks since the last edition has gone out. I’ve been spending time on my own artwork, gathering books and inspirations along with traveling and working on another project involving blockchains. Hope you enjoy! Chris Ried 📰 Happenings Eyeo Festival - June 14 - 17, 2022 School of Poetic Computation - Multiple Courses Anderson Ranch Art Center - Multiple Classes Processing and Laser: Creative Code to Wood Panel - June 27 - July 1, 2022 Drawing with Machines - July 18 - 22, 2022 📸 Generative Meet Vera Monar, the 98-Year-Old Generative Art Pioneer Who Is Enjoying New Relevance at the Venice Bienniale “For me, arriving in Paris was happiness,” Molnár told me of her emigration to the French capital in 1947 with François Molnar, who would become her husband....

Originally posted on Substack Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside of you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. - Kurt Vonnegut The quote above is so powerful that I really don’t think there is much more to be said....

I’ve been experimenting with creating blocks or rectangles with various color gradients using the pixelated variations. It is by far a most satisfying when you can then take it and use sin waves to give the edges a little more interesting flow.

Originally posted on Substack “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” - Jennifer Elisabeth I would love to see some critique in the generative arts space… But a traditional art critic would give us a perspective of how it fits into the tapestry of art history and the emerging trends that occur within the community....

Originally posted on Substack “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” - Thomas Merton Good Evening Readers! It’s been a rather interesting couple of months adjusting to full-time work at home and trying to really give a thorough think on what it means to make art, and what does generative art stand for in the context of today. Many questions that have been on my mind are:...

Originally posted on Substack “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill And 2022 is here… it’s truly remarkable how quickly time has gone and continues to go. This time last year, generative art was a small niche group of enthusiasts who appreciate the art form. Now.. well it’s become quite an interesting spectacle and will be interesting to see how it continues to play over the next couple of years....

The following project spanned across 800 editions that were released on FXHash in Dec 2021. Conceptually, this was a meditation on scale and collision. Scale is intuitively misunderstood by humans. We have a poor judgement how big, or how small things really are as we do not have a reference of comparison. It may be due to the fact that these scales are recent discoveries. We have seen stars for millenium, but we have not had a good understanding at their size until… The same goes for really small items....