Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 6PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free
Join us for the kick-off to Summer School @ Night, Eyebeam’s Thursday evening series in July highlighting the research of our Summer School programs. The first of these initiatives to take place, The College of Tactical Culture (CTC), is a think tank […]

In the beginning of the 20th Century abstractionism has been invented as a revolutionary trend in Fine Arts. The beginning of the 21st Century has just invented another revolutionary phenomenon, the Dynamic Painting. The latest innovations made it possible to place an object of the Art at a computer screen and make it not static […]

Source: Kenneth A. Huff
The digital artist Kenneth A. Huff let me know that:
the first three works in my new Contemplations series of DVDs are available exclusively at www.kennethahuff.com (a.k.a. www.itgoesboing.com).
The works of the Contemplations series are created to serve as balance to the rapid-cut, rapid-fire nature of popular culture and the frenetic pace of contemporary […]

The following is the content of Jim Campbell’s Flash presentation on the Formula for Computer Art (found via Pierre Proske):
Formula for Computer Art
INPUT

spoken words
noise
wind
rain
temperature
touch
time
earthquake
stock markets
breath
death
number of people
position
color
movement
shape
light levels
electronic activity
radio activity
net activity
hearbeat

COMPUTER SYSTEM

INPUT INTERPRETER
ALGORITHMS (INVISIBLE)
MEMORY (INVISIBLE)
OUTPUT CONTROLLER

OUTPUT

motorized object
heat generator
rain generator
noise generator
scent generator
wind generator
moving image
sound
moving text
moving robot
dynamic lighting
dynamic graph
number display

See it online: Formula for Computer Art

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3D Recursions is quite a singular forum discussing math and science applied to the generation of beautiful procedural, algorithmic 3D images.
Various forum areas are devoted to the discussion of: Strange Attractors, LSystems, LightWave, Digital Fusion and Vlam, Chaoscope. Moreover there is a special section dedicated to the official support for LightWave plugins: Aurora Attractor, […]

An interesting series of quotations from Brian Eno’s book: A Year With Swollen Appendices : The Diary of Brian Eno which allows me to know more about this important artist.
Brian Eno on Generative Art Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.
Thanks to: Fractal and Generative Arts
More on Brian Eno:

Some interesting excerpt from interview to Marius Watz, artist and curator of the Generator.x conference:
Generative art is often understood exclusively as software generated abstractions. I personally understand the term as a much broader range of strategies involving both digital and non-digital systems and processes bridging specific art traditions and media.
Generative art describes a strategy for […]

Celestino Soddu sends out an announcemnte about the Generative Art Conference:
The deadline for sending proposals (papers, posters, artworks, installations, live performances) to the 8th Generative Art Conference and Festival GA2005 was extended to 30 September.
GA2005 will be held in Italy, Milan, the 15-16-17 December 2005
For any info www.generativeart.com

Mediamatic is a cultural institution in Amsterdam. We do exhibitions, presentations, workshops and other activities in Amsterdam and internationally. This site gives you an overview combined with news and theory. The site is edited automatically with anyMeta. It matches the topical with heritage in a sometimes fuzzy, but always surprising way. Just to get you […]

This blog is not about those machines used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It’s about software that creates software. Software to play around and have fun with.
The Generator Blog

Pixelsumo is a blog about digital art, live performance, open source technologies, installations and hacking game culture.
Written and maintained by Chris O’Shea, a UK based digital artist.
Pixelsumo

Dan Bethel and Dave Griffiths are collecting resources about computer art and computer music since many years. At their Web site you can find a lot of interactive art installations, applets, application, software programs, music videos, essays.
Visit: dave’s page of art and programming

The symposium will focus on research issues in the practice of the generative arts. These issues fall in areas such as art making, art theory, digital media and human-computer interaction.
It will address recent research and future directions in generative art practice, considering issues such as:
* The specific nature of generative practice
[…]

THIRD ITERATION is the third international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts. It investigates three major themes – humancomputer creativity, generative meaning systems, and the computational sublime. Following on from First Iteration (1999) and Second Iteration (2001), this year’s conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia.
Visit: THIRD ITERATION CONFERENCE

VIDA 8.0 is the seventh edition of this international competition, created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the field of artificial life.
In previous editions, prizes have been awarded to autonomous entities able to bring us pleasure (Tickle 2.0, Tickle Salon 5.0), engage us in irrational conversations (Head 3.0) or invade our social space (Cour […]

5-7 September 2005: RULES OF ENGAGEMENT Science and Art
Conference, University of York UK.
What happens in the collision of politics, ethics and imagination between science and art?
This conference - a melting pot of talks, events, performances and debate - challenges the serene vision of art and science as a warm, fuzzy continuum and asks instead […]

This is a project written with Processing in the Programming Media II class taught by Casey Reas and Sean Dockray at the UCLA department of Design|Media Arts in the Spring of 2005. It is an interactive toy that allows one to draw and create organisms on the fly. Varying stroke lengths and loops create different […]

Trace II is an interactive drawing. It is a playful game of indirect creativity originating somewhere between the actions of the user, the program and the artist. The user must navigate a simple set of rules to generate drawings by means of a group of semi-autonomous units moving around on the screen.
Trace II is created […]

Jason Savalon. Still Life at the Speed of Sunrise 2005
Jason Savalon. Working around art, information technology, and daily life.
Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in […]

What is NETWORKED PERFORMANCE ?
locative media, augmented reality, distributed performance, environmental theatre, pervasive play, immersive gaming, telepresence?…???
Recent technological and telecommunication developments–the internet’s two-way communication model, relatively inexpensive access to computers and networks–have given rise to a powerful and diverse range of creative production, particularly among those not self-defined as artists, resulting in a bleedover between […]