4 x 4 generative design : beyond photoshop

http://www.friendsofed.com/books/4x4/generative_design/index.html

new artwork, writings, and code by -

adrian ward - http://www.friendsofed.com/4x4/generative/adrianward.html

golan levin - http://www.friendsofed.com/4x4/generative/golanlevin.html

lia - http://www.friendsofed.com/4x4/generative/lia.html

meta - http://www.friendsofed.com/4x4/generative/meta.html

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the computer screen is a compositional viewfinder. it can only see so
much.

everything that appears there is constructed of code. text. language.

applications. file formats. operating systems.

while we are in front of the screen they become the basis of our
behavior. we can only do what the program and the operating system allow
us to do.

we come to view these structures as absolutes, as independent entities.

yet all this code, these formats and protocols and platforms, are but
one small visible aspect of a much larger structure.

a process.

a movement and flow that is completely dynamic and fluid and alive.

it is not our tools and technologies but the rigidity of our
preconceptions that limit us.

we define our systems in a rigid manner forgetting all the while that
our systems define us.

generative applications short-circuit this routine, providing an escape
from our own habitual behavior.

an escape from our own limitations via a partial surrender of control.

the chaos and complexity and flux that permeates all of nature is
allowed to bleed into our most controlled and logical structures.

the programmer allows themselves to become programmed.

the designer allows themselves to become designed.

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