{"id":64,"date":"2023-08-21T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toposbooks.com\/?post_type=product&p=64"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:14:35","slug":"generation-mutation-from-crowdsourced-to-ai-sourced-new-media-art","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/toposbooks.com\/index.php\/product\/generation-mutation-from-crowdsourced-to-ai-sourced-new-media-art\/","title":{"rendered":"generation\/mutation: from crowdsourced to ai-sourced new media art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spanning more than two decades, the new media art project generation\/mutation evolved from human made, crowd-sourced art to machine made, ai-generated art. When the project was launched in 1998, artists were simply asked to<\/p>\n

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  • download the project\u2019s seed image<\/li>\n
  • alter the image any way they like<\/li>\n
  • email the result back to be shown in an online exhibition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    DV01 by H-Ray Heine. 1982 photograph, bw, Nikon F2A, 24mm, seed image for generation\/mutation online project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Participation in the project was open to everyone and every contribution\u2014provided it met a few simple technical requirements\u2014was guaranteed a place in the planned online exhibition. No jury, no curator, no censorship.<\/p>\n

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    The aim was to trigger a free and open-ended collaboration that would generate a series of contributions by artists from around the world, using the just emerging Internet as the only means of communication and exchange.<\/p>\n

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    The resulting online exhibition was seen by more than 2,5 million visitors during its first three years online!<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    And that was just the first, crowd-sourced version of the project. Heine offers a fascinating account both of the technological evolution of the Internet and their creative uses in new media art. Combining art and philosophy in a novel form of expression and discourse, generation\/mutation is required reading for anyone interested in new media art!<\/p>\n