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

system story - "a translation or narration of the processual structures, ontology, entities and relations in a software system".

*A-Life:"critics warn us against mistaking these assumptions for “the rules” of life – confusing the made with the given, or culture with nature" p 3. **"not increasingly-accurate simulations of an authorised “life”, but experimental, reflexive performances of possible lives" visualization vs. model. explanatory value. exact science. representation. *"the value of system stories for generative art is in their ability to connect...entities and relations within the system, with entities and relations outside it" p 3.

*"software... uncoupled from instrumentality or referentiality.. [it] serves nothing save its own play, display and critique.” brad borevitz. p 3.

*computationally pragmatic attributes. p 5.

*"usual disconnection between agent and environment – agents interact with each other, but have no functional impact on their world" p 6.

*a life. "life as it could be" as opposed to "life as we know it". Stefan Helmreich. p 6.

**"not increasingly-accurate simulations of an authorised “life”, but experimental, reflexive performances of possible lives"

 

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