Media Arts and Technology

What is Generative Art: A Review of Phillip Galanter’s Essay The question of what is generative is a loaded question but by looking at the art piece “A Becoming Resemblance” we can provide a clear definition of Galanter’s definition Glanter argues that “the defining aspect of generative art seems t...

George Legrady’s Equivalents II is one the earliest examples of users inputting text and natural language to create imagery. Traveling from New York to Europe , this 1992 piece uses algorithmic processes such as fractal mid-point synthesis and Brownian motion to express how text and images can form ...

Measuring the Grey - Lev Manovich Manovic is author, artist, theorist and professor who popularized the term Cultural Analytics and founded the Cultural Analytics Lab. Manovich argues for using computational, visualization, and big data methods to explore contemporary and historical cultures. His bo...

Seek by the Architecture Machine group, housed gerbils surrounded by metal blocks. The gerbils move the blocks and a robotic arm reacts and stacked the blocks in a grid-like fashion. In theory, the gerbils design and the robot Seek helps tidy up. The robot is trying to anticipate (predict) the next ...