week 9

Generative Art:

"Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software alforithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes."

1. "Generative art is a term given to work which stems from concentrating on the processes involved in producing an artwork, usually (although not strictly) automated by the use of a machine or computer, or by using mathematics or pragmatic instructions to define the rules by which such artworks are executed." (Adrian Ward Generative.Net Website)
2. "Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, which is then set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art."(Philip Galanter Generative.Net Website)

Visual Art
Visual artists have been interested in the relationship between representation and mathematics since antiquity. Artists have observed that a number of regularly occurring patterns can be observed in nature.

Music:
"Experimental composers are by and large not concerned with prescribing a defined time-object whose materials, structuring and relationships are calculated and arranged in advance, but are more excited by the prospect of outlining a situation in which sounds may occur, a process of generating action (sounding or otherwise) , a field delineated by certain compositional rules." (Nyman 1999:4)

Pop Music and Videogames:
Pop musicians have been ready adopters of computer technology

Robotic Art :

"Robotic Art is a broad term that encompasses a variety of sub-types of art, all of which employ some form of robotic or automated technology."(WIKI)

robots with contemporary artists work
* The various folk traditions of mechanical entities;
* The long tradition of robots in literature and film ;
* The work of research scientists;
* The industrial robots found in factories and laboratories across the globe.