People

Takawo Shunsuke

Explore the act of coding

• コードの身体性, embodiment of code
• Homo sapiens - Homo ladens - homo faber - homo codens
• About rules, algorithms, randomness, and autonomy
• How AI adds up to the course of generative art?
• Work process:
  • Open up a canvas
  • start with 1 stream
  • connect different streams
  • Write live
  • motion is achieved by having variables let x =0; x ++;
  • random is 隠し味 (secret ingredient)
  • for () for repetition, grids
  • if() {} else {} used in 10 PRINT, changing random changes pattern
  • translate() changing coordinate push()… pop() to create a block that can be stopped

History of GenArt, presented by Peter Bauman (Monk Anthony) from Le Random

• 70,000 bce, cave drawing using a supporting tool for net/grid motif
• Drawing machines, from mechanical to electronic
• 1525, Albrecht Durer, Sportello
  • perspective support
  • gridded screen
  • using strings
• 1608, Christoph

  Long-form

• criteria: algorithm, variation, autonomy