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New Topics and Ideas from the second Generative Art Workshop

The second Generative Art Workshop is in the books!! We had a fantastic and engaged group of people for Sunday afternoon at the GAS Gallery in Toronto. The goal for these workshops is always the same; to learn about Generative Art, make some ourselves and enjoy the time we spend together. We definitely checked all those boxes so thank you to everyone who joined in and to Tau for coming back a second time!

The success of these workshops is driven by how everyone gets into the material and bounces ideas off of each other. This session was a perfect example of that with lots of conversation, questions and sharing between everyone.

Topics and Ideas from the Workshop

There was so much discussion this time around that I wanted to capture as much of what we talked about as possible. To that end, we are have created and are sharing a Google Doc as a collective record that all attendees can contribute to. I'd like to call out Sara F and Richard E in particular for adding their notes and links to this document! Much appreciated. 🙏

Here are the topics we have collected so far. And remember, this is all in addition to the three hours of activities and discussion we already had planned!!

1. Mastodon, Alternative social network

2. Libs Elliott, Generative Quilting

3. Joshua Davis, Generative Artist working with Libs

4. Drew Lindell, Toronto Artist using felt

5. Steve Reich, American composer of minimalist music

6. Hitomezashi Stitching Patterns, Japanese stitching tradition

7. Sol LeWitt, American conceptual artist

8. Printmaking using Lego Tiles

9. Improv Quilting, Gees Bend

10. Postcard Pattern Generator Code in P5.js

11. Braille Lego!?!

12. Tau's Generative Lego Printmaking system

13. Randomness and Random Seeds

14. No Man’s Sky and Proteus Videogame titles

15. Not on a Grid! Melissa Wiederrecht and Emily Xie

16. Refik Anadol

There’s at least another two or three workshop we could run covering these topics and ideas alone. It never ends, and thank goodness!

You can find the Google Doc here. If you are a participant from the workshop then please feel free to add anything else that comes to mind! If you weren’t at the workshop you can request access to the document so that you can add your own ideas too.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18oI8LOPrD-2ThaevK2rFZtv57Lf6djChizV8ZF2C83E

Images from the workshop

Short and sweet!

That’s it for this week! If you’ve made it this far, thank you so much!

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