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2/24/2009 8:41:42Chadd RussellTo view and learn from the process in which we form an artistic project or any other form of artistically created piece of work.

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2/24/2009 8:43:21Anne G.Generative Art is the experience of artist with product and product with art. It's creating a system or machine or item that will act and interact on its own terms after it's been set in motion. It's allowing a creation to surprise and question and challenge its creator. It's a construction, deconstruction, reconstruction of artist and art and all the ideas and myths that society has imposed upon the two.

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2/24/2009 8:45:04Larry JohnsonGenerative art is the nexus of improvisation - it's art that provides an endless number of solutions to provide a means to garner an outcome. It creates a product that's ultimately malleable, no matter the medium - it can be changed by your hands, someone else's hands, or it can change all on its own...but it will change.

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2/24/2009 8:46:08Emily McGillicuddyGenerative Art is a class that has taken us places we never expected to go at UNCSA. It breaks down the normal procedures of process then analyzes and rebuilds.

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2/24/2009 8:46:30Brook Sinkinson WithrowArt whose process is chance-infused, computer-based, includes elements of nature, or any other way that the artist is not the direct maker of the work; a force external to the artist must aid in the creation of the work.

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2/24/2009 8:46:30Lindsey McKeeGenerative Art is the exploration of Art that is not our immediate association of paintings, sculpture and drawing. It is the process of not necessarily knowing the look or action of your piece. This ability to let your work go and watch the outcome is what makes generative art so removed from traditional art processes.

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2/24/2009 8:46:31kat walkergenerative art is the creation of a thing that creates something that you are not in control of. its like playing god. i dont believe in god, but if the bible held any truth, i would believe that god created man and man was created to maintain earth. instead of maintaining, we began creating things ourselves. we altered everything. so really putting man and earth together was "god"'s generative art project. whats wrong with my definition? im going against my own analogy in saying that god is not in control. whatever. you get the point.

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2/24/2009 8:46:33Lucas HausrathGenerative art is art that involves seemingly random process, but more realistically unpredictable process. Generative art tends to leave the hands of the creator to fall under the control of external devices, whether or not they be man or machine. Generative art is created from a general idea that is spread, changed, and expanded through the use of the external devices. Generative art is created constantly, whether or not it's intentional, simply because of the nature of the (my) definition.

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2/24/2009 8:47:00Alex FogelWhat is generative art? Well to be honest, I have no idea. Why do you want to know. - Well ok, if i had to give you an answer, I would say that it describes a process by which the artest relinquishes an element of control leaving the product reeking of randomness. Once removed artistry. bye.

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2/24/2009 8:47:29joe morgan is only eatingautogeneratingselfeverrewritingart

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2/24/2009 8:47:55computerHi, I am now in your spreadsheet.

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2/24/2009 8:48:01Cait RockwellGenerative Art is creations that evokes a certain response or motive. For example, an intalation that produces a sound or smell. Yet, generative art also generates from others and surrounding obsticles.

All together, generative art is a some what nontraditional or "nonclassical" approach to art.

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2/24/2009 8:48:14Ray KatzAnything (synthetic or natural) that produces an effect or evolves on it's own accord.

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2/24/2009 8:48:16D. Alex BrightGenerative art is the product of a process which is an autonomous system created by the artiest. The extent of the artist's responsibility is to either have a part creating the system, or recognizing that an already existing system is creating something which could have beauty. The product of the system could easily be just the the motion of they system, and could be art by the aesthetic beauty of the motion.

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2/24/2009 8:49:23YOU!?!?!?!?!?!?!?If you think you know who I am, then shout my name out loud. ... Don't question it. It's art.

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2/24/2009 8:49:33Robert J. VirzeraArt Generated by a calculated amount of chance. The artist should be able to step away after the peice is set. The amount of time to a quick climax to a slow molasses speed.

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2/24/2009 8:50:11Jordan LaneyDeveloping a unique visual, sound or system which creates an artistic perspective for it's viewers.

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2/24/2009 8:52:28Bran GrundlecourtGenerative Art(1): An academic class offered at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, instructed by "Dead Dean" Dean Dean Wilcox and Roberto "Bobby Boy" King. The class is held on campus' Workplace West 3. The students are put through a series of tests and gauntlets to take assessment of the students constitution.

More abstractly:
Generative Art (2): A little bit of sentience added to objects unaware. A stickman arguement. Something to set up for other people to knock down. A receipe. Cogs created by children. Fog rolling on down the mountain.
It's when you make something that makes something else.
It's when you make nothing that shuts the fuck up.

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2/24/2009 8:52:32Eric BrownThe class we are enrolled in should not be called generative art. It is generative exploration; generative learning. We are pushing the boundaries of our own training and of the boxes we have let ourselves be put into. Generative art isn't by itself a deconstructive art, but inherently in the changing of art, in the discovering of something new, we must break apart what is old, if for no other reason than to discover what was actually there. Through this class, I feel that we are doing the same thing with our training and educational system. We are challenging ourselves to think differently, to search for something new. Generative implies that something continues creating and changing itself, and we have been especially stressing that the artwork does not need interaction with the creator. The same could be said for this class - for one, we keep asking questions hoping to get the 'right' answers, but are not given any, and are encouraged to just /do/ something without worrying about the final result or approval of faculty .

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2/24/2009 8:54:16robert ellisongenerative art is a quasi-interesting, often generously applied term to describe the mostly petty occurances in our class.

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2/24/2009 8:54:32EmilySo I won't just answer the question, it says discuss AND define. For Discuss: I won't follow my first impulse leave this blank or stand up and start screaming, because I do believe that in order for this theory, these excercises and projects to be effective, a system is necessary. For me, gen art is not deconstructionism, but production based upon chaotic materials. Chaotic materials are of course, thought, creativity, and ideas. Generative art is, art. (dear god, the ineffective lameness of that sentence) Art as it was intended to be, or, at least its intent in my mind. Art as a reflection of society. Art to me is evolution. It's a gathering of information, whatever information exists at that time and place, and in the circumstances of that environment, and producing. Generative art uses that same system. (deliberate use of that word) We students gather present information and materials, typically based upon our field of study, and construct an effect with those materials. I'm hitting submit before the bile of my brain takes me too far.

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2/24/2009 9:04:38Horga Mocksvillehttp://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:HELL_NO_DO_NOT_WANT.jpg

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2/24/2009 9:06:35Dramamine Golthwaithttp://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Meme

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3/1/2009 19:38:14Daniel PropsScience in it's purest form