Course "Algorithmic Art & A.I."  –  Remko Scha

Visual Algebra: Artificial

System for showing everything. (Cf. Chance Art.)

De Wensput als kunstgenerator. Werkt niet echt. Wat dan?

De Vries, Mandelbrot, Morellet, Von Graevenitz: random lijnen.

Stijlsimulaties.

The linguistic approach.

      Repertoire of elements, orderings, patterns, relations, transformations.

Patronen.

Clive Goodinson: ABC Kaleidoscope. (<5k 2002.)

Geparametriseerde beschrijving van vormen.

Bit-101 Laboratory: 02 jan 11; 02 may 08/26 (color!)
Limiteazero: Spiralator (<5k 2002): " a new spiral every ten seconds".
Architectuur: PADL-2. (Opzoeken.)

Image Description Language. (Algebraic system; cf. programming language.)

Generate random expressions of this language. Then: execute them.

(But first: generate random subset from this language: "style".)

  Artificial      

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References

K. N. Brown, C. A. McMahon, and J. H. Sims Williams, "A Formal Language for the Design of Manufacturable Objects," in J. S. Gero and E. Tyugu, eds., Formal Methods for CAD (Elsevier, The Netherlands, 1994).

Remko Scha: "Artificiële Kunst" Informatie en Informatiebeleid 6, 4 (1988), pp. 73-80. [Reprinted in Zeezucht 4 (1991), pp. 29-34.] [In Reader 1991/1992]

Remko Scha: "Computer/Art/Photography." Perspektief 37 (1989), pp. 4-10. [In Reader 1992]

Remko Scha: "Towards an Architecture of Chance." Ms., 1992. [Published later in: Hans Konstapel, Gerard Rijntjes and Eric Vreedenburgh (eds.): De Onvermijdelijke Culturele Revolutie. (Den Haag: Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming, 1998), pp. 105-114. In Dutch.] [In Reader 1992]

Huge Harry: "On the Role of Machines and Human Persons in the Art of the Future." Pose 8 (September 1992), pp. 30-35. [In Reader 1992]

Remko Scha: "De Kunstkunstenaar." Natuur en Techniek 60, 7 (July 1992), pp. 526-539. [In Reader 1992]