iterative art: from reactive (trigger-release) to visualizing data

meta.am

obviously algorythmic

james patterson

iterative assembly tool

joshua davis

art-making machines

amit pitaru

iterative sound tool

danny brown

mathematics is the language of nature

ed burton

sodaplay: gravity and behaviour

marius watz

organic drawing machine, universal digest

camille utterback

visualize our movement

golan levin

visualize our breath, iterate a font, map gesture and object to sound

ben fry

nature shows us how to visualize data

archs-os

awareness design, display information in new ways

EARTH, a unique geo-spatial visualization system, culls real-time data from the Internet and accurately positions it onto a three-dimensional model of the Earth.

john klima

ecosystm portrays shows currency volatility through behaviour of creatures

carnivore

display network traffic through physical clients

knitting map

weather and traffic in cork is recorded through knitting stitches and colors

obviously algorythmic

tool as art

emulate nature's rules

display our world

we've mutated from using digital media to emulate nature - displaying and subverting its forces and rules in the digital realm - to using nature and the physical world to display what goes on in our ether/ networked world.

nb: This list is by no means exhaustive. It gives a sample from several key points in recent iterative art. We could take this to Sol Lewitt, to John Cage, to anything related to rules-based art, but we've been there, so I'm gonna stick to stuff we haven't covered, or stuff we've covered less.

questions: (use CardStacks) - an example
How is the code visualized in these pieces (perception vs. construction)?
What roles do aesthetics and utility play in these formulations?
Where do these pieces fall in the spectrum between formalist and culturalist approaches?
What distinguishes data visualization software from art that displays dynamic data?