Generative Art - Computers, Data, and Humanity | Off Book | PBS

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An intriguing combination of programmers, artists, and philosophers, these creators embrace a process that delegates essential decisions to computers, data sets, or even random variables. This allows important metaphors to arise in their work, calling attention to the relationship between humans and the computers that surround us, the mountains of information we generate, and the powerful impact that technology has on our relationships with each other.

Featuring:

Luke Dubois, Generative Composer
Scott Draves, Generative Artist
Will Wright, Game Designer

Music by:

Codex Machine, http://soundcloud.com/ms-codex
Luke Dubois, http://lukedubois.com
Revolution Void, http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/revo...
Tryad, http://tryad.org
Reno Project, http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Reno...

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  Film & Animation

[schiloneb]

whats the piano piece at 6:00?

[PBS]

That song is called "As We May Think" by "Revolution Void".

[Joe BoB]

very cool

[João G.]

I would like to be in a party with those light :O

[mafiamitzy]

No it certainly does not, it turns this data into something that is very loaded emotionally. The music represents the coldness of the data a lot indeed, but it makes you think more about how much 50 actually is. 50 is just a number when you read it, but when you hear 50 notes it´s easier to grasp just how much that is. At least that´s how I see it.

[bhartman7893]

Hey I just made my first song ever and would love some feed back just click my name to see it. Or if your feeling artsy and shit check out my newest video/song /watch?v=i7ozlSx_egw. Did I mention your brilliant and sexy? see what I did there? ;)

[yellowklayman]

Why is it impossible to find that Luke Dubois song?

[fake name]

No, I was sincere, though calling him a douche was a bit rude. I wasn't saying he should talk about music history, just about music. My point about Bach was. That high contrapuntal style has to be influenced by itself more than outside factors; you can develop the theme from outside factors, but the song should be self influenced.

[Brian Fay]

Are you trolling? He isn't giving a music history lesson, he is telling viewers about generative and his work. So yes, of course he is talking about what he did. The same with the others in this video. The artist didn't talk about Rodin. Will Wright didn't discuss the invention of chess. Does that make them terrible people? Anyway, I'm probably going to go listen to some Bach.

[DevilsLegionnaire]

hundreds of years of technological advancement and we get batik shirts from the 70's. well played.

[fake name]

the first guy's a douche. he talks about what he does and did, rather than the work inherent. go listen to some bach, buddy.

[UltimateReaperStudio]

That is insane! God I feel so unintelligent right now. Designing such beautiful programs like that.

[fightfeces]

I bought Corel video studio pro for $100 and can easily do any of that stuff. Check out this other guy's channel...him and I are at odds because he is bigoted against Arabs and Muslims but, his ART is great. It is Channel: EssentialDegnities

He focuses on Moody Blues and most of his art is like this video;.

Again: his political views suck and I think his channel is nothing but his personal pussy magnet and yes, I am jealous, thank u.