Originally posted on Substack “The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson What makes a good generative agent? It’s an interesting question, that I will scratch but the surface. However, I’ve gathered a list of general considerations from my observations of the generative arts. My intent is to discover and explore. Some of this comes from the pursuit of understanding… in an ironic way. For one, It is the pursuit which help build an eye for the different, and aesthetically pleasing....

Originally posted on Substack “The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Good Evening Friends! I’ve been busy starting a new job and trying to replatform as a way to ensure that the newsletter is in a format that can be accessible and more automated for me. Right now I have been using Substack, however I am wanting to create great content, and automate as much as possible....

Originally posted on Substack “An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.” - Kazuo Ishiguro What does generative art look like in the future? As much as I enjoy investigating the path that the discipline of generative art has taken in the past 60+ years; I also have been thinking about what the future may hold in this space. So what I am going throw out there has yet to be fully thought through....

Originally posted on Substack “Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” - Leonard Bernstein Generative Systems to Generative Aesthetics All of my life, art has been a piece of my existence....

Originally posted on Substack “I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.” - Kamand Kojouri Alrighty, well I wanted to complete a piece on randomness called the “Ode to Randomness” as there is so much to be written and techniques in which randomness is so important to the work of generative artists. But I’ll get it out soon enough. Instead; here is an interesting usage of randomness....

Originally posted on Substack “At the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration” - Elizabeth Gilbert The last couple of weeks have been quite eventful. I’ve taken a new job and there has been much transitioning that has occurred to get everything completed. That being said, my work on aggregating / discovering the history of generative art has been progressing....

Originally posted on Substack “The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from the air, creating by the exertion of the imagination.” - Frederick Brooks Quick update: Well its been 6 months of almost weekly newsletters and I am so excited of how much content and interest (~500 Substack subscribes) there has been! I’ve loved the interactions I’ve had with you all and will hope to continue to do so!...

Originally posted on Substack “Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.” - Osho Hello friends! I know that I generally release on Saturday for the week but we had family and work which led to not having as much time this weekend to ensure that I finish editing the video done in time for the next release. And it is here! My conversation with Dave Yarwood led us down some very interesting conversations on the idea of generative music and how one might go around using a system such as Alda to create “generative music....

Originally posted on Substack “Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.” - Pearl Zhu As NFTs are all the rage, I thought I might lay out my thoughts and maybe inspire more conversation and thoughts. So I’ve intended this to be considered in small chunks. I love the fact that the non-centralized infrastructure brings transparency to the masses. I don’t like the idea that we could be speeding up the process of CO2 shot into the environment due to additional electrical consumption of the blockchains....

Originally posted on Substack “Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.” - A.R. Fagundes Another week has come and gone. I am currently working on an essay trying to historically outline the world of generative art since the 1960s. I’d like to really trace the thread back to compile a little history just because I love origin stories and I also highlight our “ancestors” of the generative arts....