Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

Systems 2014

211 bytes added, 16:35, 30 January 2014
→‎System Stories and Model Worlds: A Critical Approach To Generative Art
*system - abstract formal structure
*system story - "a translation or narration of the processual structures, ontology, entities and relations in a software system".
*"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.
A-Life:
not increasingly-accurate simulations of an authorised “life”, but experimental, reflexive performances of possible lives
visualization vsprevelance of pragmatism with generative/software artworks. modelpeople do/make what they are able. explanatory value. exact science. representationwhen tech is a stretch, "able" is quite limiting.
"the value idea 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.instrumentality
*"software... uncoupled from instrumentality or referentiality.. [it] serves nothing save its own play, display and critique.” brad borevitz. p 3.
*referentiality is downplayed in favour of pure generative instrumentality. p 5.
*explanatory power?
*simulation?
*visualization vs. model. explanatory value. exact science. representation.
 
what kind of world is modelled? an impoverished one. p5.
*computationally pragmatic attributes. p 5.
*referentiality is downlplayed in favour of pure generative instrumentality. p 5.*"they model a world", but an impoverished one.*"onsider consider 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." 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.
</poem>
===Works===
*Casey Reas - Software {Structures}: Reas’ #002 and #003, Tarbell’s #003A and #003B, and Ngan’s #003B. [10]
Retrieved from "http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Special:MobileDiff/6251"

Navigation menu