Marius Watz’ ElectroPlastique #1 - Preview 720p

Generator Everything by Bruce Sterling: “Marx said that men make their own history — but men don’t get to select the circumstances in which history is made. That’s what it’s like to be a “generative artist” — you have the productive capacity to generate incredible profusions of artistic material. Primeval amounts of weird beauty, volcanic gushes of awesome sight and sound. But you don’t get to generate the art world. The art world was here already.

The art world lacks pull-down menus, and it has no selector preferences. To quote Marx again — I rarely do that, and I’m kind of enjoying it — it’s a “tradition of all dead generations that weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” Whereas modern generative art is, as Marius Watz likes to frame it, “Generator.x.”

That variable (X) is arbitrary. That’s the joy and the freedom of generation, that’s what is so different and contemporary about it. It’s not artistically arbitrary, like “I can paint anything I please”—it’s arbitrary in the mathematical sense. The generated (X) can be most anything. Anything that can be framed within computational logic. Anything subject to algorithms. Anything that is procedural, parametric, performative. Anything…” Continue >>