LO-02: Generative art

Joshua Davis Studios

I chose to take a look at the work of Joshua Davis. I chose to look at his project “the V01D,” which, like my last post, has to do with music. My last post dealt with the autonomous creation of music, however this project was the autonomous creation of an animation that goes along with musicThe V01D is a type of generative art, which means it was created with the use of an autonomous system. Davis used dozens of reactive algorithms in order to turn the music of Kurt Uenala into animation. When paired together (the animation and the music), it is a very cool experience. I admire this project because I enjoy music and enjoy generative art like this, and since it combines the two it is very cool. Davis used 36 different algorithms in order to create these seamless animations, which is a lot more than I thought would need to be used.