As i understood machines and the concept of generative art better, i got the opportunity to read published works on generative art, which helped broaden my perspective on it.
The medium of expression that appeals to the art community is that which gives great freedom to the artist as well as the art piece. More the amount of freedom presented, much more credibility rests in the art piece. And from the many fundamental questions as well as answers that govern the multitude of concerns of the art community, rises a question against the very credibility of an art form, in itself. This art form beckons to be called by various aliases, to head the various different sub-heads that it looks over. Generative Art as it is known over disputed understanding of whether it should head such revolutionary art forms it houses within, is in the simplest of words, a form of art that allows a free and random generation of an art that beyond a set of guiding principles, governs itself without any theoretic/pragmatic intervention of any sorts. To think of such an art to be made possible, it of course has to dwell in the future, than in the past/present. Innovative techniques of stemming the human intellect into an artificial body to provide for superhuman tasks, is quite the necessity. Thus, starting from a time which saw the end of a bloody era, of wars being waged against mankind by itself, started the noble glorification of extending knowledge and intellect to embody humanitarian concerns. With different technologies being developed to make things ‘simpler’, came the adversely overt concern of complicating the methods used in ‘making things simpler’ to generate something that has always given humanity, asylum, art. A development that started in the 1950’s, started as an alternative medium of expression, opposed by the ever so accepted forms of art, especially the fine arts. When George Nees exhibited his first work in the 1960’s, he created a revolutionary foreground for a then small group artists that chose to develop art, with the rapid growth edging towards the age of technology .
The contributors of this genre, used various mediums, of electronic/ digital/computer technology to make Interactive Art, Evolutionary Art and much more. Creating a great foray of enhanced multimedia and graphics. The hostility of an age of great knowledge was now slowly being broken down to accommodate a larger mass. Using a set of pre- determined rules rather than a step-by-step algorithm, computers were given the time and space to do their own thing. Many subheads of generative art used music and video to enhance the experience the art provided. A lot of generative art also makes the audience an integral part of the final work, interdependently placing the viewer/’user’ as an artist too.
But then again has a question been risen that doth taunt the existence of this art form, ‘ if an art being generated by un-emotionally inclined technology, be termed as art?’, as an integral part of art is it’s intrinsic value of emotions.
To answer this, I believe we should pay heed to our biological selves which have been developed over a great deal of time and have been a product of a series of modifications which help make us objects that create art. In the same way, we ourselves have developed Artificial Intelligence with great zest and zeal, and should keep faith in this zest and zeal to not only help society but also please it allowing it to harbor all potentialities. This is an exquisite form of art that allows perception in the randomization that, at some point has tingled our imagination.
The contributors of this genre, used various mediums, of electronic/ digital/computer technology to make Interactive Art, Evolutionary Art and much more. Creating a great foray of enhanced multimedia and graphics. The hostility of an age of great knowledge was now slowly being broken down to accommodate a larger mass. Using a set of pre- determined rules rather than a step-by-step algorithm, computers were given the time and space to do their own thing. Many subheads of generative art used music and video to enhance the experience the art provided. A lot of generative art also makes the audience an integral part of the final work, interdependently placing the viewer/’user’ as an artist too.
But then again has a question been risen that doth taunt the existence of this art form, ‘ if an art being generated by un-emotionally inclined technology, be termed as art?’, as an integral part of art is it’s intrinsic value of emotions.
To answer this, I believe we should pay heed to our biological selves which have been developed over a great deal of time and have been a product of a series of modifications which help make us objects that create art. In the same way, we ourselves have developed Artificial Intelligence with great zest and zeal, and should keep faith in this zest and zeal to not only help society but also please it allowing it to harbor all potentialities. This is an exquisite form of art that allows perception in the randomization that, at some point has tingled our imagination.