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Algorithmic and Generative Art

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Algorithmic and Generative Art
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 23 Issue 2

Description: This is a collection of essays that survey and explore the role of algorithmic and generative art not solely in the landscape of new media art but in the larger framework of contemporary fine arts. They analyze conceptual themes, aesthetics, and forms which have characterized and are reshaping our understanding of aesthetic in a computer based environment and beyond.

Senior Editor: Lanfranco Aceti
Editors: Kris Paulsen, Meredith Hoy

Reference this volume: Aceti, Lanfranco, Kris Paulsen, and Meredith Hoy, eds. Algorithmic and Generative Art. Leonardo Electronic Almanac 23, no. 2 (March 15, 2019).

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ISSN: 1071-4391
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Acknowledgments: With thanks to Philip Galanter for the cover image. “The piece is as much about the generative process as it is the final results, and the hope is that the interactive program will combine with the panels to deliver an experience grounded in both formalism and dynamism.” Excerpt from Philip Galanter’s artist statement.

Please Note: This volume is in development.

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.