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A little over a year ago I went to Paris with my mom and we visited the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. There was this installation there called “The River” that generated in real time the names of all the people, cultural groups, and locations, that are named/appear in the museum into a river that flowed down this winding ramp. All of the words would randomly generate at the beginning of the stream and flow as if pulled by gravity to the end bumping into each other and clumping together along the way. The forward for the piece says that it was made by Charles Sandison the programs used to make the projected river were made in C++ language. I would say that the piece contributes to the possibility of more generative art within museums in the future so that more life/movement can be brought to still artifacts and words which make up history museums. I can’t say who might’ve inspired the artist because I’m not very familiar with generative art/artists. This piece caught my attention because it was very mysterious. You had to follow the river and look closely at all the words, which were difficult to see, to understand what they meant. It was very different from everything else in the museum, but at the same time tied everything together by documenting all of its contents in this unique way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_LAOv4ZqSQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1dOk2nKSJI
