Looking Outwards-06: Random Art

One randomly generated work I like is Bogdan Soban’s “Abstract 11”. It looks like a landscape and assumes a painterly quality, but was randomly drawn by code. Soban states that he utilizes innovative image processing that hides the computer origin of pictures, combined with multi-level algorithms, to create the most original works. His definition of generative art describes design that is composed in a random manner. He finds interesting, aesthetic precedents, and develops his own generative designed software that randomly draws new images based on those precedents. Once the program is running, Soban does not interfere with it, rather lets it run its course regardless of its outcome.
His pieces have no outside intervention nor predefined result. I really appreciate Soban’s process because he uses software that he creates on his own, not using existing programs available online.