(De)generative Art: Rules-transgressing algorithms

While Descartes famous phrase “I think therefore I am” from 1637 was asking what does it mean to be human (Descartes 2001), this paper and demonstration explore a possibility of embodying desire, understood as a transgression of a law (Bataille 1986), into algorithms and letting them express those transgressions as artworks. Transgression, etymologically a “cross-over”, implies in Bataille a move from ordered, rational state into to unordered, irrational realm. If we think in traditional computing terms of the algorithm as a set of pre-defined rules, then it is hard to imagine any possibility of those rules being broken, without inherently breaking the algorithm. Only with the advent of artificial intelligence, notably different forms of neural networks, the notion of hard set of rules with a precisely defined sequence to be followed becomes softer, with algorithms’ ability to adopt and change the rules governing the solution to a given problem.

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Dario Srbic

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 221-222

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[0001]Royal College of Art

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London SW11 4AN, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.42

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] I. Asimov 1950 Runaround In I, Robot Doubleday New York

[2] G. Bataille 1986 Erotism: Death and Sensuality. University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis

[3] R. CowenM. K. StasiowskaH. LaycockC. Bantel 2015 Assessing pain objectively: the use of physiological markers Anaesthesia, 70 828–847

[4] R. Descartes 2011 Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology. Hackett Publishing Indianapolis

[5] M. Foucault 2011 The Courage of Truth. Palgrave Macmillan UK London

[6] M. Foucault 1990 The Use of Pleasure. Vintage Books New York

[7] A. Klose 2016 Technosphere Magazine: Container Love, and Fear http://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/c5843f70-944d-11e6-b127-9b6412115574 (retrieved 26 February 2018 )

[8] O. MatarazzoI. Baldassarre 2015 Are Emotions Reliable Predictors of Future Behavior? S. Bassiset al. (eds.) Recent Advances of Neural Networks Models and Applications Springer International Publishing Cham

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