The computer has infinitely changed the way we look at and think about art and with technology getting better, people are going to continue to surprise and astound us with how they are using it to create beauty.
As an interactive designer, I’m fascinated by “automated” art. Some people might think that it’s cheating, since no one is actually rendering the composition by hand. I find it exciting. The randomness of what can be created. The works rarely tend to turn out as something that anyone would have thought to render by hand.
The well-known example of what I’m calling automated art would be Joshua Davis, whose rendering programs have generated images for companies such as HP, Adobe and BMW. Josh is interesting because his work, created digitally and randomly is often sold as prints or made into murals, taking it out of the digital world and making it part of the physical world.
Then there’s processing an open source programming language that allows digital artists to create beautiful and interactive video projections such as this one that Barbarian Group did for Saturn.
And then this morning I ran across a company called Voiceprints that allows you to talk into a microphone and then based on your voice frequency it will generate patterns. How cool is that?
Computer geeks creating art. What a wonderful world.
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