[eu-gene] Generative art that is not software based?

[Jer Thorp]

Not exactly what you're looking for, probably, but your question made  
me think of Rosemarie Fiore's Good-Time Mix Machine:

http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=4

And of course Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures.

-Jer


On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Federico Bonelli wrote:

> Hello,
> At the present time I am involved in a project were we are creating  
> group movements using algorithms.
> Is an analogic approach, not software based, that  considers a  
> choreography as a set of rules and having the performers develop  
> along those lines. Is loosely based on ideas by Laban and Valentine  
> de St. Point among the others, and has some roots in modernism.
> if someone is interested can go have a look to our project website:
>
> http://www.umbrasolis.net/?p=246
>
> and here:
> http://www.umbrasolis.net/?p=40
>
> At this point of the process we are transforming elements found by  
> the choreographer into rules given to the performer to move and  
> interact. We plan to introduce as soon as possible other strategies,  
> as the process of the dancers allow this. The choreography in some  
> parts of the show is designed from geometric rules, and so emerges.  
> More and more we want to arrive to explore what happens to make that  
> in real time.
>
> f
>
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:00 PM, alex wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> On 6 April 2011 19:55, Philip Galanter <list at philipgalanter.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> I'm interested in hearing from (or about) folks making generative  
>>> art mostly
>>> or entirely without computers. I.e. the determining system is not  
>>> software
>>> based. Also it should have been executed in the last 3 or 4  
>>> years...more
>>> recent is better.
>>
>> This might be of interest:
>>  http://toplap.org/index.php/Live_Coding_Without_Computers
>>
>> There's a clip of some tongue-in-cheek algorithmic dancing amongst  
>> this:
>>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
>>
>> And of course the ongoing pattern based crafts like knitting that
>> you're already aware of...  Ele Carpenter's Open Source Embroidery
>> might be of interest, although it doesn't have a strong emphasis on
>> generative rules:
>>  http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/osembroidery.htm
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> alex
>>
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