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 […]

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

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

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

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 […]

CACHe’s mission:
>CACHe is a major research project into the origins and history of British computer arts.
>We are based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The substantial government funding for our project indicates the level of interest […]

PAGE 17 July 1971, Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society

Is Beauty Random?

A Geometric Pattern Drawn by Pen

A Labyrinth

This is something of a mother lode for the history and theory of computer art.
PAGE, newsletter of the Computer Arts Society, 1969-1985, CACHe Project
It’s nice to see things in contrast and compare what they did in 1971 […]