spontaneous network compositional tools surture the gap between spontaneity and social inscription
the above riff was made by random pecking for a couple minutes on a reasonably intuitive music software
webern berg schoenberg sampler

Sonic Charge : computer generated beats created through principles of evolution



“…we want to introduce Conditional Design as a term that refers to our approach rather than our chosen media. We conduct our activities using the methods of philosophers, engineers, inventors and mystics.”

two projects about the camera as a networked object. [...] The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other’s photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.


In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’


2008, six-channel interactive video installation, 30′x20′
computers, six video projectors, three video cameras, custom software, vinyl floor

Ice Fishing in Gimli
by Rob Kovitz
8 volumes, boxed set
4750 pages, 6″ x 8″
ISBN 978-0-9812869-0-7


Schmitz. (2002)

in Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

“I invoke Perec’s Judaism only in the way that he did—by scorning religious ritual, and investigating the esoteric aspects, especially the parallels between Oulipian restrictions and the disciplines of kabbalah.”

The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.

It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.

“The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global finance.

We use up-to-date 2.0 trend analysis and data visualization technologies, neural networks, graph theory or quantitative structural linguistics in order to be able to predict the next artistic craze.”
Christophe Bruno (2002 – 2008)


“RiTa† is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple tools for experimenting with generative literature.”

Code Enabled Brushes


“Gnoetry is an on-going experiment in human/computer collaborative poetry composition.

Gnoetry synthesizes language randomly based on its analysis of existing texts. Any machine-readable text or texts, in any language, can serve as the basis of the Gnoetic process. Gnoetry generates sentences that mimic the local statistical properties of the source texts. This language is filtered subject to additional constraints (syllable counts, rhyming, etc.) to produce a poem.

[...]

A key aspect of the Gnoetry software is the ability of a human operator to intervene in the language generation cycle, helping to “guide” the artistic process and to produce a result that is a true collaboration of equals.”


“…mashing up typography with MRI scans and digital fabrication / 3D printing…”


We propose a practical method for automatic procedural synthesis of synchronized harmonic bubble-based sounds from 3D fluid animations.


“More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.”

Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983



“…our aim lies in developing simple, deterministic and traceable generative processes. These simple processes have the advantage of more control: as they are highly determinable, their output is predictable and can therefore be easily refined through subsequent adjustments. We aim to show that a single deterministic process can generate a heterogeneous set of forms with an astounding degree of complexity.”

michael hansmeyer