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Computer-generated art way too focused on pure aesthetics. Sure, it's pretty, but at some point it becomes quite boring. Anyone cares to put a little more meat

by d--b 5y ago

Computer-generated art way too focused on pure aesthetics. Sure, it's pretty, but at some point it becomes quite boring. Anyone cares to put a little more meat in these?

w0u7 5y ago
Thanks for your input. Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm genuinely interested to hear more.
- d--b 5y ago
  Well, if you look at your art, or pretty much anything on art blocks, you will find pictures that are formally intriguing and/or pleasant for the eye. But it doesn't trigger much emotional response or provoke any kind of reflexion. The art I personally like makes me think about something in a way I haven't thought about before. Taking the tree ring example which you seem to like. Well, there is a guy called Giuseppe Penone, who's worked with trees for a long time. And some of the drawings he's made start with his fingerprint in the center of the page, and he just grows the fingerprint as if it was a tree by adding rings around it. you can see one here: https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/creations-contemporaines/propagazione-2009-giuseppe-penone/9747.html https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/creations-contemporaines... It's visually equally appealing, but it also have that thought-provoking quality to it. What does it mean to draw tree rings around a fingerprint? When I look at this, there is a chain of thoughts which I can't really put into words, but that seems to encourage me to live slower, and be more humble towards nature. It's a simple difference between your work and his, but it makes his interesting to me and yours a bit shallow. And when you look at other stuffs he's done, it's just stunning. For instance this: https://domaine-chaumont.fr/fr/centre-d-arts-et-de-nature/archives/saison-d-art-2016/giuseppe-penone https://domaine-chaumont.fr/fr/centre-d-arts-et-de-nature/ar...
  - w0u7 5y ago
    Thanks for taking the time to elaborate a bit more. I didn't know Giuseppe Penone; his work is intriguing. I love that he is looking for analogies between human bodies and the "bodies" of trees. I hear you about generative art. There's something dead about most of it. But I find it worth the effort to investigate if it can be more. DendroRithms is based on a series of hand-drawn pieces in Japanese ink I made a few years back. I created the algorithm using the same methodology I used to create that piece. With this project, I'm researching what the blockchain can be as a medium for art. And generative art lends itself well for that purpose. Most NFTs are no more than a certificate of authenticity linking to a file somewhere. DendroRithms is different in that it lives on the blockchain. It will be there for as long as the blockchain stays alive, independent of external hosting services. It's also a living art installation in that participants (buyers) shape the evolution of the project. We don't know the result until the project ends. One of the participants illustrated the tree-like evolution very well: https://twitter.com/ADA_BLOCKS_/status/1490668106808762373 https://twitter.com/ADA_BLOCKS_/status/1490668106808762373 I hope this explains a bit more about my intentions.

by d--b 5y ago

Computer-generated art way too focused on pure aesthetics. Sure, it's pretty, but at some point it becomes quite boring. Anyone cares to put a little more meat in these?

w0u7 5y ago

Thanks for your input. Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm genuinely interested to hear more.

d--b 5y ago
Well, if you look at your art, or pretty much anything on art blocks, you will find pictures that are formally intriguing and/or pleasant for the eye. But it doesn't trigger much emotional response or provoke any kind of reflexion. The art I personally like makes me think about something in a way I haven't thought about before. Taking the tree ring example which you seem to like. Well, there is a guy called Giuseppe Penone, who's worked with trees for a long time. And some of the drawings he's made start with his fingerprint in the center of the page, and he just grows the fingerprint as if it was a tree by adding rings around it. you can see one here: https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/creations-contemporaines/propagazione-2009-giuseppe-penone/9747.html https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/creations-contemporaines... It's visually equally appealing, but it also have that thought-provoking quality to it. What does it mean to draw tree rings around a fingerprint? When I look at this, there is a chain of thoughts which I can't really put into words, but that seems to encourage me to live slower, and be more humble towards nature. It's a simple difference between your work and his, but it makes his interesting to me and yours a bit shallow. And when you look at other stuffs he's done, it's just stunning. For instance this: https://domaine-chaumont.fr/fr/centre-d-arts-et-de-nature/archives/saison-d-art-2016/giuseppe-penone https://domaine-chaumont.fr/fr/centre-d-arts-et-de-nature/ar...
- w0u7 5y ago
  Thanks for taking the time to elaborate a bit more. I didn't know Giuseppe Penone; his work is intriguing. I love that he is looking for analogies between human bodies and the "bodies" of trees. I hear you about generative art. There's something dead about most of it. But I find it worth the effort to investigate if it can be more. DendroRithms is based on a series of hand-drawn pieces in Japanese ink I made a few years back. I created the algorithm using the same methodology I used to create that piece. With this project, I'm researching what the blockchain can be as a medium for art. And generative art lends itself well for that purpose. Most NFTs are no more than a certificate of authenticity linking to a file somewhere. DendroRithms is different in that it lives on the blockchain. It will be there for as long as the blockchain stays alive, independent of external hosting services. It's also a living art installation in that participants (buyers) shape the evolution of the project. We don't know the result until the project ends. One of the participants illustrated the tree-like evolution very well: https://twitter.com/ADA_BLOCKS_/status/1490668106808762373 https://twitter.com/ADA_BLOCKS_/status/1490668106808762373 I hope this explains a bit more about my intentions.