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Generative Art is art in which there is a level of autonomy that the artist is not in direct control of. More specifically, in generative art, the artist purposefully produces a canvas with certain blank spots that can be generatively filled in and still produces a wonderful outcome within the artist’s vision.
In this particular work, the basic concept that the artist is using is the mathematical concept of B-splines, where a smooth spline is drawn through control points without passing through these points itself. By moving the points, or nodes, the splines follow the nodes, creating an erratic yet smooth picture. Hoff, the artist for this piece, used randomness to change the positions of the nodes. From this piece, I could sense the artist’s intentions of creating a beautiful transitional piece that showcases the calm becoming the erratic.
Source: https://inconvergent.net/thoughts-on-generative-art/