Web Generated Art
Panos Galanis’s web art generator.
My own example:
More at squareONE Explorations. Triptych: Ruh From Hubble
I did spend hours judging my own “luck of the draw.” This was very enjoyable. As a collagist and digital artist, I reckon the Galanis Generator is the best of the current lot. It occupies a gray area because its procedure appropriates random material via google, and, by definition, derives kitsch product. Yet, results could be passed off as being the result of craft, even artistic, skills.
(I did do some futzing with the raw collages using Photoshop.)
To me, it is a Web 1.0 deployment. Java-driven toys came in with the entry of java. So-called ‘generators’ make up a genre of appropriation.
For example:
Made here.
I’ve executed a series of cartoons using cartoon generators; of which there are many.
The net.art generator automatically produces net.art on demand.
This version of the net.art generator creates images. The resulting image emerges as a collage of a number of images which have been collected on the WWW in relation to the ‘title’ you have chosen. The original material is processed in 12-14 randomly chosen and combined steps.
The net.art generator was programmed by Panos Galanis from IAP GmbH, Hamburg, and was a commission by the Volksfürsorge art collection.
My own example:
More at squareONE Explorations. Triptych: Ruh From Hubble
I did spend hours judging my own “luck of the draw.” This was very enjoyable. As a collagist and digital artist, I reckon the Galanis Generator is the best of the current lot. It occupies a gray area because its procedure appropriates random material via google, and, by definition, derives kitsch product. Yet, results could be passed off as being the result of craft, even artistic, skills.
(I did do some futzing with the raw collages using Photoshop.)
To me, it is a Web 1.0 deployment. Java-driven toys came in with the entry of java. So-called ‘generators’ make up a genre of appropriation.
For example:
Made here.
I’ve executed a series of cartoons using cartoon generators; of which there are many.
