Originally posted on Substack “Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.” - A.R. Fagundes Another week has come and gone. I am currently working on an essay trying to historically outline the world of generative art since the 1960s. I’d like to really trace the thread back to compile a little history just because I love origin stories and I also highlight our “ancestors” of the generative arts....
Originally posted on Substack “Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.” - A.R. Fagundes Another week has come and gone. I am currently working on an essay trying to historically outline the world of generative art since the 1960s. I’d like to really trace the thread back to compile a little history just because I love origin stories and I also highlight our “ancestors” of the generative arts....
Originally posted on Substack “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ― Paul Cezanne One of the things that I hope we continue to remember as “autonomous art” (i.e. currently GANs and generative artistic systems) becomes more apparent in the coming decade. Let’s not forget what makes art and the aesthetic beautiful. the process and the relationship one has with a piece of art....
Originally posted on Substack “If little else, the brain is an educational toy.” - Tom Robbins Well, there is about 6 hours worth of learnable content that I’ve attached this week. Most of it I’ve been able to race through. Tyler Hobbs Interview Being the first interview I’ve done this way. I am a little overwhelmed and self conscience but I decided that the beauty of generative is that sometimes the mistakes are just part of the output and should be kept....
Originally posted on Substack Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead R and Generative Art How do you like to see tools used for different things? I enjoy seeing a tool used for something entirely different. Take Excel, for example, it is a complicated calculator with a bunch of functions used for managing portfolios, budgeting, forecasting, to personal databases as the normal use case of Excel....
Originally posted on Substack “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” - Brene Brown Happy Weekend Friends! Its been a week. The people of the United States have much to consider for the future. It’s only through thoughtful debate and understanding on all sides in which we need to hash out our differences with patience, respect, kindness and vulnerability. Otherwise it is our animalistic nature that will take its course....