of course I'd start with 
one of my examples
Related pages: Table of Artists related to Iterative to Data Visualization, DmIterateToVisualize
MarcelDuchamp
3 Standard Stoppages, 1913
"canned chance": dropped metre-long string from a height of one metre, "suggesting an infinitenumber of possible metres" (corrolary to DmIterativeArt in that a process is defined and repeated, quasi-user actuated) (fromDmPerspectivesTwo reading assignment)
- a design for a system that was semi-random and futile (the bachelors never suceed)
- letting dust draw
To be looked at, from the other side of the glass, with one eye closed, for almost an hour
Sol Lewitt
"A defining factor in this shift was the work of Sol Lewtt - specifically his wall drawings. A wall drawing is a set of instructions (a text description and optional diagram) outlining a visual structure to be executed on a wall. For example, the program for Wall Drawing #69 from 1971 reads:
Lines not long, not strait, not touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall."-
John Cage (via Wikipedia
Iterations of systems
- "chance music" (and what others have decided to label aleatoric music) - music where some elements in the music are left to be decided by chance
- at Pomona College, shocked to find a large number of students in the library reading the same set text, he rebelled and "went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z."
- "Introduced to it by Christian Wolff, Cage began to use the I Ching in the composition of his music in order to introduce an element of chance over which he would have no control. He used it, for example, in the Music of Changes for solo piano in 1951, to determine which notes should be used and when they should sound. He used chance in other ways as well; Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) is written for twelve radio receivers. Each radio has two players, one to control the frequency the radio is tuned to, the other to control the volume level. Cage wrote very precise instructions in the score about how the performers should set their radios and change them over time, but he could not control the actual sound coming out of them, which was dependent on whatever radio shows were playing at that particular place and time of performance."
Golan Levin: The Manual Input Sessions
- set up a system in which gestures are translated to sound. In effect, they have created an audio-visual musical instrument that is performed by placing objects on a projector and making hand motions.
Joshua Davis
- check his talk on generative art
Camille Utterback
External measures and Untitled 5: the way the pieces interact affects the participants' motion (jerky so as to re-establish mark in External Measures)
Viruses can be seen as iterative art
- alife
Jo Coupe
His Loose Canon has steel pots overflowing with fog and chalk to stain the rocks beneath them.
Algorists
- [Algorists: Jean-Pierre H?bert, Manfred Mohr, Roman Verostko or even Jean Tinguely.|http://www.artificial.dk/articles/watz.htm
- http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/02w200a/algorithmic/