I was on twitter the other day and chanced upon @ebertchicago . He has a great deal to say and does it well. Mr. Ebert also links to interesing stuff. Something he twittered was a screensaver. It is called E-Volved Cultures from LUMC Reseach labs.
It is quite something and is hard to describe. It is like watching a painting being created before your eyes, but all abstract. The picture is always transforming, being painted over, layer after layer is added. The site gives you an explanation of whats going on, but honestly i don't get it. I don't mind that because not being an artist i don't understand how a person can pull a flower out of a blank page with only a piece of charcol. Yet i can still enjoy the result.
If they are able to make this into a product that you could hang on your wall I would buy one.
It is not a substitute for art. It is an example of technology as art. Like elephants and apes that paint. I think it is cool that these animals can do it and the pictures they paint are interesting, but they represent nothing of the artist. That is what seperates the human artist from his animal or computer compatriot. Art preforms two tasks, to exist and to represent the perception and interaction of the Artist with the world. For the second action you need inteeligence on an order sofar found only in humans.
I do recomend you give it a try, of course take the usual precautions when downloading any material from the net. I have installed the program and have encountered no neagtive effects. Enjoy.
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