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==System Stories and Model Worlds: A Critical Approach To Generative Art==

Whitelaw. ''System Stories and Model Worlds: A Critical Approach To Generative Art''. 2005.

*<blockquote>software formalism v. software culturalism*critical generativity*code - language specific text*system - abstract formal structure*system story - "a translation or narration of the processual structures, ontology, entities and relations in a software system".

*"critics warn us against mistaking these assumptions for “the rules” of life – confusing the made with the given, or culture with nature" p 3.

**visualization vs. model. explanatory value. exact science. representation.

*"they model a world", but an impoverished one.

*"onsider the subject or agent modelled here, if that’s the story we want to tell: a clone in a crowd, unchanging, with no traction on the space it inhabits, existing in an ongoing, perpetual present."

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===Works===

*Casey Reas - Software {Structures}: Reas’ #002 and #003, Tarbell’s #003A and #003B, and Ngan’s #003B. [10]

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