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The most interesting computational and generative art sites and anything else that interests transphormetic.

Dec2004a
Data is Nature! is a filtration of browserSpace covering such topics as Generative Art, Robot Art, Sound Art, Video, Actionscript, Visual Installation, VJing and AudioVisual Software. Essentially its a space to share my findings in a number of personal research areas. The diverse range of provocative and beautiful artifacts being created with machines is staggering - this page will document many of these works both from the past and the present.

Nov2004a
I cannot remember exactly why - but i was searching browserspace for pictures of radiolaria yet again! am i obsessed? I came across a peice of software called tesselsphere - ideally suited for producing complex tesselated spherical objects such as radiolaria and pollen.

Ernst Haeckel's beautiful, mathamatical and hullucinogenic pictures of radiolara are some of my favourite illustrations of all time, i just ran aross this page - Proteus - a film about his work

Oct 2004b
Hektor is a robot graffiti aritst! 'he' is controlled from adobe illustrator vector files. Check out his work, what breadth of style he has, from William Morris to Wildstyle!

Pongmechanic is where the classic PONG is brought into the world of mechanical comprehension!

Software Structures is an answer to the simple question: "Is the history of conceptual art relevant to the idea of software as art?".

Metaphorical has a great selection of studies in flash and proce55ing. Snowflakes appear to evolve similarly to our evolutionary friends the biomorphs and at times resemble our other freinds the radiloaria!

Oct 2004a
Reliktstrahlung - An audio visual perpetuum mobile with rand0m glitch vector schematic aesthetics.

Parasitic Media: Creating Invisible Slicing Parasites and Other Forms of Tactical Augmentation from the Carbon Defense League!

"A 22,050 oscillator additive synthesizer with 1024 stage envelope generators on each is merely a copy-and-paste operation. The same goes for a 1 million voice granular texture!" - cSound a rogramming language designed and optimized for sound rendering and signal processing.

sept2004d
'A-life in Flash Part 1 – Automata, Ants, Biomorphs and Bacteria' has just been posted. This article looks at some of the mathematical models that can be used to represent life with simple interaction rules.

One link from that article that i'll include here is Mirek Wojtowicz's Cellular Automata Gallery Page. Sooooo many species of Cellular Automata!

Video Feedback pattern artifacts are one of the more interesting side effects of camera-monitor mis(use). Like snowflakes or radiolarians endless varieties of unique forms can be discovered. Videofeedback.dk has this lovely collection of feedback protazoa and spiral galaxies.

SolLewitts Wall Drawing 811 - The explicit plans should accompany the finished wall drawing. They are of importance.


Sept2004c
'Generative art is as old as art'. An interview with Philip Galanter. This interview covers all the really important questions surrounding generative art and is a fascinating read

Sept 2004b
"Art appliances" software and LCD panels 1998-2001 - One piece, 'Color Panel v1.0', runs continuously and never repeats. "The software iterates through color possibilities explored in theories proposed by Bauhaus artists including Klee and Kandinsky". As an art college student i was pretty obsessed with the works of Paul Klee.

Sept 2004a
Glitch Aesthetics - Some excellent critical appraisal of glitch in its many guises from Iman Moradi.
Zefrank has some very nice interactive pieces created in flash. The Scribbler transforms line drawings into nebulous sketches that look as if they have been woven by spiders! Snowflake is impressive too!


August 2004a
"As the complexity of systems grow, unpredictability increases." Meta reloads http://www.meta.am/. Compelling generative graphics, reactive computations and other audio/visual feasts.

typedown by Benjamin Fischer contains a cross section of work with great design and conceptual integrity. Explore explore.

July 2004d
Pair (click on the 7th dot on the bottom nav) is an interesting kaleidoscopic winged effect.
Vigilance 1.0 a video surveillance game.
The Rasterbator allows you to make large scale composite images from you favourite image.

July 2004c
Ever felt restricted by the fact that your flash creations exist only within the confines of browser-space? Fret no more, Makingthings have developed a set of modules allowing you to control and receive data from external devices using ActionScript. Looking foward to linking up my camera & projector to a live scan installation.

Spiraloaterals are beautiful as it is but when combined with the impression of them being realised in real time, sketched by the computer, they really do it for me. Check this applet from bitArt.

Using game alogrithms to make art. 3D doom-space rarefied into refracted voxel bricolage.

July 2004b
dmtr.org has some rather tasty glitchy generative work roaming browser-space. Theres a 3D pyramidal sierpinski matrix in there and im digging poptical, a mouse-driven bridget riley simulation! What is it with all this geo-optical stuff that keeps cropping up?

retrocell is quite the most beautiful life algorithm to land on earth.

more great visual hedonism from marius

July 2004 a
Mathematicians on stamps!
SIERPINSKI was the founder of a triangle victor vasarely surely would have been enchanted by. Check out the others.
while i was triangle hunting i found this.
Check out this hi-tek digital video device for cinema and vj shows.

May 2004a
Check out typorganism for experiements of beauty and integrity.

In london spring seemed to come and now its gone again, to allow you to remeber what its like have a look a neaves kutopia flower ( spotted at lightcycle.org ) and while your there check out the neat 3d source code!

April 2004b
Transphormetic is perenially interested in data visualisations. One particular theme ive come up with is the idea of visual isomorphic representations of 'intent' within data diagrams, network maps and schemas of the organisms/organisations that make them. What the fuck does this mean? - in a little time all will be revealed. And now for some top notch visualisations :)
1. Walrus Young Hyun at CAIDA
2. Visual Text Mining Tool from Schoenerwissen - Office for Computational Design.
3. Try plaNet Former from sota, dextro and kaoru. (kill the top window and click on the thumbnails on the page underneath for some beauty )

April 2004a
revist ctrlaltdel.org for clunky granular bit-art.
kopenhagen.dk has an interview/essay to do with computer code as art material.
particles written in openGL, complexities programmed by ole kristensen.

March 2004b
Making the machines that make Art!
Leonel Moura has a been making artists! Check out his(?) mbot works! Whats more he argues that robots are the ultimate 'pure psychic automatists'! In this domain of robot art hi-tek is not always essential as robotic artists can be produced with a few basic materials costing few quid as these Drawbots made by Jonah Brucker-Cohen show. And why stop at visual art, here are some automaton musicians!

March 2004a
Persist (jeff) has written a really interesting tutorial on raw data visualiation in flash. Here he uses Chicago area wind data to produce some nice visualisations. Also check out this 3d installation.

George Hart has been using Rapid-Prototyping technology to produce highly complex geometrically exact sculptures.

For maphead-axonographers see these subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.

Feb 2004c
Some more from the Digital Art Museum. Scratch Codes and White Noise, alien computer handwriting from 1969-72 , algorithms initiated by Manfred Mohr. Then theres Mark Wilsons beautiful circuitboard-like paintings done in acrylic a few years later.

Marius reciprocated some kind words about transphormetic and some links back too! His hrefs also point to a recent piece by toxi, Base 26. Intriguing and beautiful!

Feb 2004b
overgrowth! infinite random isometric enjoyment! Also go check out the sites of the guys that made it. Mulder & Delta

Feb 2004a
AmoebaAbstracts 1-3 by Marius Watz refuse to rely on just clever code for clever code sake, here we have some very beautiful abstract 'screen paintings' with interaction & randomness in all the right places and at all the right times.
complexification is a very wonderful gallery of computation from Jared Tarbell. Ive been a big fan of Jareds work since i discovered his amazing maths based flash work a little before i ended up contributing to 'flash math creativity' in which he also contributed a chapter! Im sure you allready know about levitated, if not you must visit right now!

Jan 2004d
For multiReplication fanatacists check these and this from depart. Also see this.
For some Russian telegraphic monoStructs check here.
For some elegant huebronic shockwaving check bittegutfinden.
Some us in England may have noticed some of this stuff falling recently.

Jan 2004c
oh where has lil Metic been lately?
Riding through the werx and stopping of at the nodes it finds:-
That Herbert W Franke has been obtaining patternings from computer programs and defiantly calling them art since 1953 at the latest. i love this interlacing and this.
That c505 has a great catalogue of 'digital noodles
That Ben Fry has produced some stunning genome maps. Like this and this.
That its better to be g33k than bleak! A curious calculation results in the mysterious number 1333996 while andromeda strains converge on the strap!
That coolbubble has made my favourite non-iteractive proce55ing artwork so far. Theres also a really nice golden ratio rendition.
That echocolor is producing some pointilistesque digital painting mosiacs that make metic happy.

Jan 2004b
Tom Thumb and Staying Pictures are short generative films by alex evans, pretty much all elements from backgrounds to sounds are uniquely generated for each viewing!
'Bridge' is an algorithmic movie about architecture. Its like a realtime animation of a super stretched marquee selection in photoshop, you know the the effect!
Obsessed as i am with maps, mapping ( use and misuse ) and psychogeography i have to take a peek at socialfiction.org on a regular basis.

Dec 2003c
These wonderful new video works from meta remind me of gliched cellular automata. Bad robot code infects the cellular heuristic!
For those not familiar with the cellular automatix i was going to find a nice picture but you can do that yourself, instead i found this for you. CAMUS, the Cellular Automata MUSic generator!

Dec 2003b
Roman Verostko attatches a variety of pens and oriental brushes to a plotter and 'instructs' them to 'paint' and 'draw' according to algorithms running via his own personally developed software. See the slides!

Dec 2003a
Poeticterror.com is one of my favourite math-intensive generative flash-art sites. Its been going for quite some time, but recently i returned to find some stunning new works. I particularly love the dynamic systems (35) which remind me of the shells of sea urchins, the pascals triangles(34) and the exploding circle(21).

nov 2003c
Supershapes at the excellent bodytag.org is an interactive rendition of the superfomula written by Paul Bourke, originally developed by Johan Gielis. In simple terms this equation can generate an almost infinite range of shapes by connecting ellipses to points and circulating connected curves. The end result is variety of spirograph-like shapes that mimic forms found in nature.
Eros ex Mathematica has some erotica created entirely from mathematical algorithms!
Glyphiti is an interactive graf board made of component squares.

nov 2003b
On the subject of my previous subject i found these very cool freeframe plugins for resolume.
The new work at fluxen is very nice. The colours, the subtlety.
Hirmes has some stunning ice photographs.
Just discovered the the body of work at jtnimoy. I homed in on the Interactive Typographic lettersetting Experiments, the illustrator scripting plugin and, ofcourse, the spirograph.

nov 2003a
Im going to be doing some visual projections on saturday nite in stratford at the 491 gallery. Ill be mixing in harmonic concordent imagery, specific intelligible geometric forms aswell as some of my generative flash files. In the persuit of suitable software to do the job i came across two interesting applications that allow the mixing of flash files. Ive been playing around with resolume for a couple of days now and it really is a brilliant bit of software - 3 layers of 20 possible channels to mix with and wealth of effects and generators. It also has a very clean vector-style interface to boot. Ive been having so much fun with resolume that ive yet to try out flxer - a dedicated flash mixer, but it looks good and i hope to give it some time in the next day or two.

oct 2003f
A nice rendition of the cellular Automata Rule 149 can be found here.
A splendid fractal growth model or 'Diffusion Limited Aggregater' can be found here.

oct 2003e
Gluebalize - The network is the artwork. I contributed three peices to this online magazine dedicated to the art/net/work. Each artist is also interviewed on such issues of 'what is net art?' and what it means to be a net artist, if such a thing exists.
Thanx to mauro gatti of mimic and thebrainbox for getting me involved.
Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 - online scans of one of the most inspirational otherworldly set of imaginatively embued nature illustrations ever.
On a similar lineage we move onto a Hyperspace Star Polytope Slicer!
The meticTendrils are further swirling towards involving-systems , worms in sand and redchopstick.

oct 2003d
Both generative.net and gratin.org are good core hubs for the outwarldly expanding tendrils of connectivity to other artists dealing in generative and programmatic approaches to art.
'The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings.' - Borges.
pixellab is still one of my favourite online computation 'art' spaces on the networks.
biollogic3 has some nice processing experiments as well as wide range of flashworks.
prate is always like a breath of fresh air in the asphyxiating network of cloning.

oct2003c
wormpath presented itself via a little inbound flightpath to the metic, i like.
sign-generator is a combinational line draw permutator!
As you may know i like kaleidoscopes, particularly computer generated ones! you may have seen my Calliscopes. Rickmu has a lovely flash kaleidoscope toy that generates 'music'.

oct 2003b
Ive never come across Aspen, the multidimensional multimedia magazine from an age far away but still close to touch. Some real core ppl worked on it, Angus Maclise, Richard Alpert and John Cage to name a few. Some key moments/movements are documented too - fluxus, minimalism and the psychedelic movement.
My favourites so far include :- The Psychedelic issue ; The Fluxus issue ; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Lightplay ; john Cage's annotations for Fontana Mix which often spins on the metic decks!

oct 2003a
here is a selection of some of my favourite blogs at the moment.
beverlytang writes on radical tech and new edge immergences.
giornale nuovo by mr h mainly collects and writes on nature illustrations from the medieval era onwards.
purselipsquarejaw by Anne Galloway, sprawls rhyzomatically across a wide variety of interesting topics; design, culture, technology and mapping.
lightcycle by Michael Davis contains entries on topics, almost without exception, dear to the metic heart. Particularly the intersection of art and math, also interesting are his proce55ing experiments.

sept 2003b
here are some feasts! Generative psychogeographical algorithmic path diagrams made with design by numbers of all things. Older viewers of transphormetic will know that psychogeography is very dear to the metic heart.
here youll find an automatic drawing as made by a computer instructed by code written by a human. Many other interesting projex hidden below the surface of forkinsocket.
toxi has a nice selection of motion code werx in a demo scene style
flight404 is king proce55or for me right now!

sept 2003a
nerual.it is an essential catalogue of edge web art, electronic sound art, and e-politix.
beflix.com is a glitch zone paradise. The aesthetics of digital corruption displayed in an eminently readable blog.
proce55ing.net showcases a range of beautiful computional art made in the proce55ing environment. Proce55ing is an electronic sketchbook for developing visual ideas developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas of the Aesthetics and Computational Group at the MIT Media Lab and a group of artist-developers across the net.
dextro.org is the original and first major semi-automatic generative landscape