Generative Art Wiki

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This is a wiki dedicated to gathering and presenting information about generative art. What is generative art?

Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist uses a system that operates with some degree of autonomy, and contributes to or results in a completed work of art. Systems may include natural language instructions, biological or chemical processes, computer programs, machines, self-organizing materials, mathematical operations, and other procedural inventions.

Unlike some other wikis, the Generative Art Wiki is not open to public authoring or editing. If you have particular expertise in some aspect of generative art and would like to contribute to this effort, please contact Philip via email.

Complexism Blog

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The Complexism Blog serves as a scratch pad and sounding board for speculative ideas that may or may not be formalized later.

Complexism is a worldview that addresses the subject matter of the arts and humanities in a way inspired by a scientific understanding of complex systems. In doing so complexism provides a higher synthesis that subsumes both modern and postmodern concerns, attitudes, and activities. Complexism provides an intellectual meeting ground where the 20th century conflicts between science and the humanities can be reconciled.

For an introduction to complexism please see "Complexism and evolutionary art" from The Art of Artificial Evolution edited by Juan Romero and Penousal Machado.

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