2d:null 2e:["$","title",null,{"children":"SM2220 Assignment 1 | ychsu6 | Observable"}] 33:T91e,md` ### [Why Love Generative Art?](https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art) Jason Bailey, 2018

It's surprisingly interesting that Generative Art has actually such close relations with Contemporary art development. And even elements such as Chance, Abstract, and Geometry, those keys factors from generative art are in fact influenced by Art of the 20th Century ; or even to say, the two are intertwined and affect and reinforce one another. That is for me, while exploring both topics myself, started from appreciating "the beauty and organic essence of software art" and then realized "the great contemporary art and their influences", but never thought of connecting each other with.

I think the idea of Sketches is very similar to the process of creating generative art, no matter the outcomes themselves are adjustable or not, but to artists, being able to mess around with certain parameters along the creating process does describe a lot about multiple sketchings and thus opened up more freedom.

I really like the idea of Controlled randomness, where "surprise occurs from the defined system". This is very much sth I wish to work on more this semester. Most of the time I feel trapped (somehow because of how entry my programming level is). Instead of enjoying being surprised by the outcomes that the system executed for me, very often I spent most of the time fighting against the tools I have and frustrating for not being able to reach expecting goals.

The author mentioned a very powerful work [AI Fashion - Robbie Barrat](https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/do-androids-dream-of-balenciaga-ss29), where the artist gathered images from the Balenciaga online fashion catalog and used them to train his AI model. The well-blended colours with human figures and some random placements of color blocks all together create amazing surprises, but one can still tell that the overall generated outcomes are under certain constraints, such as certain levels of symmetry, certain rules/standards in fashions that create the idea of "beauty", etc. And I find this really stunning, for how such approaches break certain conventions and open up more possibilities for creations. `34:[] 31:{"id":"fbb808276eb2177f","slug":"sm2220-assignment-1","title":"SM2220 Assignment 1","thumbnail":"a370fe4b82ec50ce0cd14bfcee03abe94d89cab5c75444e2cdc015468f922df9","access_level":"public","create_time":"$D2021-09-07T22:56:12.502Z","update_time":"$D2021-09-11T19:27:24.535Z","view_time":null,"first_public_time":"$D2021-09-07T22:59:12.000Z","has_unpublished_edits":null,"fork":false,"stars":0,"starred":false,"owner":{"type":"team","id":"c3d91d7db2867b4d","login":"betahsu","name":"ychsu6","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/197b7792c36f626b9fe391a472486b8b6dc3cf3503a2bb52e365e7916c324a9e","tier":"starter_2024"},"version":44,"publish_version":44,"role":null,"authored":false,"authors":[{"type":"individual","id":"8205ffe96d046f8c","login":"betahsu","name":"ychsu6","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/197b7792c36f626b9fe391a472486b8b6dc3cf3503a2bb52e365e7916c324a9e","tier":null}],"members":[{"type":"individual","id":"8205ffe96d046f8c","login":"betahsu","name":"ychsu6","avatar_url":"https://avatars-next.observableusercontent.com/197b7792c36f626b9fe391a472486b8b6dc3cf3503a2bb52e365e7916c324a9e","tier":null,"role":"editor"}],"comments":[],"custom_thumbnail":false,"trashed":false,"lapsed":null,"subscribed":null,"forks":0,"collection":null,"type":"notebook","body":{"title":"SM2220 Assignment 1","cells":[{"id":0,"value":"# SM2220 Assignment 1","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"},{"id":6,"value":"$33","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"ojs","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"$undefined","database":"$undefined"}],"files":"$W34","stdlib":"1","titling":"auto"}} 32:"$31:body"