Procedural Aesthetics

Murray:Procedurality is one of the defining

characteristics of t digital media.

Marcel Duchamp

“3 Standard Stoppages” (1913-1914)

John Cage and David Tudor

“Variations IV”

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John Cage

“Fontana Mix” (1967)

“chance operations”

“ purposeless play”

Toneburst: Maps and Fragments 1995 - 1996

David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska

The ideograms appear in various forms in the multi-layered, translucent panels (scores, or maps), which express the interactive assembly of sound, coming from a flow of operations on active circuit elements. There is no one way of performing the composition; in fact there is an infinity of performances encoded in the circuit, which are visualized in the panels. The performance begins with introduction of individual sounds, and so there will be clusters of ideograms in space which will introduce the visual components of the larger maps. The colors and shapes indicate different groups of operations on active circuit elements (frequency and phase, input/output switching, amplitude, source input). With this visual language we have been planning to work next on another David's composition, which was commissioned for Merce Cunningham's dance 'Enter'."

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Jackson Pollock

“Convergence” (1952)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ

Andy Warhol

“Marilyn Diptych” (1952)

Jean Tinguely and Billie Kluver (E.A.T)

“Homage to New York” (1968)

http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html

“Game of Life” (1970)John Conway

Bill Vorn

“Evil/Live” (1997/2004)

http://billvorn.concordia.ca/robography/images/downloads/EvilLive3.mov

Craig Reynolds

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

“Boids” (1986)

http://odyssey3d.stores.yahoo.net/comanclascli2.html

Stanley & Stella in “Breaking the Ice” (1987)

Wii BoidsMax Granu w/ narrative by Howard Rheingold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyt36v_9fC0

Karl Simms“Panspermia” (1990)

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_panspermia_1990

Karl Simms“Genetic Images” (1993)

Karl Simms“Evolved Virtual Creatures” (1994)

http://www.archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1994

Karl Simms“Galápagos” (1997)

Calvin Ashmore

http://www.icosilune.com/GeneticImage/gallery.php

http://www.icosilune.com/Artwork/povray.php

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneaux

“Interactive Plant Growing” (1992)

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneaux

“A-Volve” (1995)

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html

Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneaux

“Live Spacies II” (1999)

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/FrameSet.html

Will Wright/Maxis“Sim City” (1989)

Will Wright/Maxis“The Sims” (2000)

Will Wright/Maxis“Spore”

http://www.spore.com/screenshots.php?movieID=0&play=hi