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Projects

Buzzart Generator

I’ve written a simple random painting description generator in Prolog and I’m working on getting it compiling as a full-screen Java application using Prolog Cafe.
The choice algorithm is random, but the choices are structured hierarchically so there is structure to the generated descriptions. I’m going to add complexity to it and start working on non-random choices.
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Projects

1968

I found more images for ‘1968’ and decided that the title is right after all (a preview is on my web site as “Objection” at the moment). I’m struggling with the colours, though.
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Projects

Titled

Last night I realised that Daniel Buren’s stripes are ideal reference for the next set of Titled images. Squares, boxes, zips, and now stripes. Looking at the Buchmann Galerie site today, Lawrence Weiner’s graphic conceptual text might make good source material for the project as well, taking it in a new direction.
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Generative Art

Open Art Ontology

For several projects I need a semantic net/slipnet to represent aesthetic concepts for a program to work with. This could be generally useful (or at least amusing) so it could be an open source project.
Prolog, like Lisp/Scheme, is another language that doubles as a data structuring file format and it is ideal for representing semantic nets and frames, and you can implement it in about five lines of itself. 😉 So this will be in Prolog.

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Satire

May Day

Smash global capitalism: spend less money.

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Satire

What Is Art?

I asked ThoughtTreasure (a natural language/commonsense system):

> what is art?
>
ENG art; fine art;
ANT: ENG art; fine art;

An art is a sort of media object. Sorts of arts: architecture, the American
art, the comic strip, the drawing, the graffiti, the museum piece, the Oriental
art, the painting, the performance art, the photograph, the picture, the
sculpture, and the watercolor. Other types of media objects: hypermedias, the
advertisement, the broadcast, the computer program, the dance, the datafeed,
the film, the genetic code, the mail, the message, the opera, the part of film,
the part of text, the part of theory, the play, the protocol, the script, the
station, the text, the theory, and the video.

An art is a R2 of a leisure activity. Artist creates an art. A museum visit is
a company relation of an art.

art creation
_______________ ______________________
American art American
architecture architect
performance art performance artist
photograph fine art photographer
sculpture sculptor

art paint
________ ________________
graffiti graffiti painter
painting painter

Artist creates an art.

An art. A leisure activity. A museum visit. Leave. Go. A snow. It. A rain
shower. Rain. Some meteors. The weather. An indefinite ce. A beautiful day. A
good weather. A sunny sky. A clear sky. A sky coverage.

>

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Satire

Blue

A blue screen is exhibited.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they found it like that.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they crashed an NT box deliberately.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they wrote a program that colours the screen blue.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it randomly shows an RGB colour on start-up.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it studied several thousand religious images and decided on blue using a neural net.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it was meant to show an animation.

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Aesthetics

The Condition Of Design

It is not art that is weakened as it approaches the condition of design. It is the power of criticism. All art is design: a competent aesthetic response to a set of isomorphic demands.

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Aesthetics

Drawing and Coding

(Figurative) drawing and programming are both about structuring perceptions in-keeping with representational schemes to enable engaging with subjects. Competent drawing is regarded as technically conservative. Which is ridiculous given that the last fifty years have seen drawing used more than ever before. Animation, computer games, graphic design, movies and web/UI design all use drawing as part of their design process. Programming must also be technically conservative, which means that “technically conservative” is a weak and suspect label.