Suggested References

During the meeting with Gianni he suggested I looked at a selection of references related to my area of exploration. These included a range of art project websites to specific projects and installations.

The first reference suggested was a website http://www.rhizome.org/ this site contains a vast amount of collaborative projects and art projects that could possibly link to my project idea.

Secondly he suggested checking out former iDat student Adrian Wards Auto Illustrator. A graphic tool application that according to the website signwave:

Auto-Illustrator is an experimental, semi-autonomous, generative software artwork and a fully functional vector graphic design application to sit alongside your existing professional graphic design utilities.

Use it to explore a wide range of generative and procedural techniques in the production of your own graphic designs. Discover how easy it is to produce complex designs in an exciting and challenging environment that questions how contemporary software should behave.

This project shows relevance in the area of my project due to its process of outcome being generative and undetermined. This follows on from what Gianni suggested in the meeting to explore, the area of process and whether I want the outcome of my project to be random or be pre-determined.

The final reference is a project entitled Poetic Generator. http://www.poietic-generator.net/ The idea is a collaborative web based project in which users will be allocated a slot in which they provide art work upon a 20 x 20 pixel window to be randomly added to a number of other users to create an autonomous collaborative art work.