These two images were created by entering the word 'Canada' on the website socialart.com. This site lets you input text (single word entries seem to work best), and images are then pulled from search engines and recombined to create, ummmmm, art? Uh oh, here we go again....
Check it out, though. It's very cool.
...I especially like the inclusion of the 'Thousand Barrels Per Day' graph in the second one.
5 comments:
This is totally cool.
Think about what this says about creativity as origin and process; could it be instant? could it be permutations of 0s and 1s in metal and electrons? could it involve something random? is randomness something substantive in art?
Whatever the case, aren't we lucky?
:)
yep. and good call c-dog.
back to the art not-art debate (does that even exist anymore, or matter?), i think we here at ALfA blog and associates strive to dissolve those boundaries. kid's drawings are as good as picasso's. better, even.
and random digital art? LOVE IT!
p.s. let's get drilling for oil in them thar wildernesses!!!!!
The cool part is the inclusion of randomness, but also that its's tempered by real human input. The person who built the software provided templates for the program to use in assembling the images, the search engine results are related to actual human activity on the internet, and of course, the end user chooses the text to search for. The variation is in how those things come together, in an unpredictable way, and never the same twice. Quite awesome!
In regards to :
"back to the art not-art debate (does that even exist anymore, or matter?), i think we here at ALfA blog and associates strive to dissolve those boundaries. kid's drawings are as good as picasso's. better, even."
I agree that kids drawings are as good or better than Picasso (depending what your looking for), but I think the art/non-art debate does matter. It matter's very much if you expect or want some people to actually practice and cultivate traditional (and maybe not so traditional) art practices around the world. Also I think it is unfair and contradictory to speak for all ALFA-blog members as a whole. Remember "art is the DE-colonization of the human imagination" -Guillermo Verdeccia (?)
While there may be a certain harmonizing effect at times, we may find less motivation by creative people, and miss out on cool programs like this (and who knows what) if good ideas are diluted to a meaningless "It's all the same".
I realized at one time I advocated the all art is equal idea, but I changed my mind. =)
I think a safer statement is "Everything is art, but feel free to have favorites and talk about it"
and that "Art with a capital A (painting drawing sculpture) isn't the only or most important art, despite the fact it is often my personal favorite, I must admit it's out-wieghed by sheer volume by the 'everything' that follows the little-a-art".
Furthermore, I think the involuntary members should be changed to all-inclusive membership, and forced comissions should be "solicited comissions". And by the way this is meant to be a self-critique more than anything. I am not trying to say Lorne did anything wrong, because he surely didn't (This bit of self consciousness was brought on by Carlos's poem above, I questioned myself again, is this {being percieved} as me not controlling myself?. I thought of it as just re-thinking the artist collective idea, and uh... doing it out-loud (publicly). Any thoughts on these matters would be greatly appreciated (and if you agree/disagree I'd like to hear why).
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