Generative Art

About

Generative art includes a range of creative methodologies for consciously and intentionally interacting predefined and reasonably predictable (controllable) systems with different factors of unpredictability in preparing, producing, and presenting the artwork. It cultivates the notion of an artwork as a dynamic catalyzing event or process, inspired by curiosity, susceptible to chance, and open to change. Generative artwork’s poetic value often depends less on its formal aesthetics than on its capacity to engage the audience with cognitive process(es) about the mechanism that interrelates controllable and uncontrollable elements within equally important conceptual and contextual milieu. This introductory course is a platform for studying generative art theoretically and exploring generativity in making analog or digital artworks. It provides an understanding of generativity as a powerful cognitive toolset and medium-independent expressive framework that makes crucial contributions to art and culture.

Student Work Sample

Alina Ling, Stone Sound Textures, installation, 2020

Samuel Ng, Abstract Perception, visualization, 2020

Bryan L. E. Kwang, Celine L. J. Xiu, Norafizah B. Normin, Elizabeth Q. L. Min and Ying Hui Tan, Matapolis, installation, 2020