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24 de Setembro a 24 de Novembro
Driessens & Verstappen
September 24 to November 24
'09
Artist's Homepage
Morphotheques
Morfotecas
At the beginning of the 1990s, as a response to the postmodern view that there are no other options than repetition, recombination and eclecticism, Driessens & Verstappen came up with the idea of automating artistic production. So the artists shifted their attention to using computers to develop artificial worlds with generative and self-organising properties. An important source of inspiration at this are the self-organising processes in our natural surroundings: the complex dynamics of all kinds of physical and chemical processes and the genetic-evolutionary system of organic life that continuously creates new and original forms. The artists observe these processes and record their diversity. Over the past years, this has led to several form collections, the so called Morphotheques. Each Morphotheque isshowing the stages of transition or the variations of forms that could be expressed within a specific generative process.
At the beginning of the 1990s, as a response to the postmodern view that there are no other options than repetition, recombination and eclecticism, Driessens & Verstappen came up with the idea of automating artistic production. So the artists shifted their attention to using computers to develop artificial worlds with generative and self-organising properties. An important source of inspiration at this are the self-organising processes in our natural surroundings: the complex dynamics of all kinds of physical and chemical processes and the genetic-evolutionary system of organic life that continuously creates new and original forms. The artists observe these processes and record their diversity. Over the past years, this has led to several form collections, the so called Morphotheques. Each Morphotheque is
showing the stages of transition or the variations of forms that could be expressed within a specific generative process.
No início da década de 90, em resposta à visão pós modernista de que não existiam mais opções para além da repetição, recombinação e ecletismo, Driessens & Verstappen criaram a ideia de automação da produção artística. Assim, os artistas centraram a sua atenção na utilização de computadores para o desenvolvimento de mundos artificiais com propriedades generativas e de auto-organização. Uma fonte de inspiração importante são os processos de auto-organização no ambiente natural que nos rodeia: a dinâmica complexa de todos os tipos de processos físicos e químicos e o sistema genético-evolucionista da vida orgânica, que continuamente cria formas novas e originais. Os artistas observam estes processos e registam a sua diversidade. Nos últimos anos têm surgido várias colecções de formas, as chamadas Morfotecas. Cada Morfoteca mostra as fases de transição ou as variações nas formas que se podem manifestar num processo generativo específico.
Exhibition view
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Driessens & Verstappen (no sound)
