The market relief of Kutaisi – The largest of the Soviet Union

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Bernard Nebieridze – Kolkheti (კოლხეთი), 1992, ceramic, 217 square meters, installation view, Green Bazaar, Kutaisi, Georgia

The Kolkheti relief, also known as the Kutaisi Market relief, is a striking ceramic panel located at the entrance of the Kutaisi Central Bazaar in the city of Kutaisi, Georgia. The artwork, created in 1985, is a high-relief that depicts various historical and mythological figures, as well as individuals who have contributed to the development of the city of Kutaisi.

The panel, which measures an impressive 217 square meters, was created by the Georgian artist Bernard (Franz) Nebieridze (1939-1987) and is the largest relief among the...

Meaningless

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Meaningless is my ArtBlocks debut, dropping on Tues 30th May 2023. This project has been a journeyyyy and in this article I’ll talk through how the project works and roam around some conceptual thoughts.

You can see the project live here.

Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s

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Computing and creativity have always been linked. In the early 1800’s when Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, his friend Ada Lovelace wrote in a letter that, if music could be expressed to the engine, then it “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” [1]

Midjourney takes on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

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Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawings’ aren’t actually drawings at all but, rather, instructions for drawings. These instructions have been implemented in many ways, by many different people, revealing how they are both prescriptive and ambiguous. Control over the final output lies somewhere between the instruction giver and the instruction follower.

A few weeks ago I used AI chatbot ChatGPT to implement the instructions, first using GPT-3 and then using GPT-4. Continuing my mission to use AI tools for things they really weren’t designed for and aren’t very good at, in this article I’ll be using AI image generation tool...

AI Generations: ChatGPT-3 vs ChatGPT-4 on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

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About six weeks ago, I used ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, this article explains what’s going on and contains ChatGPT outputs compared to human drawings.

In that article, I used GPT-3, which was all that was available at the time. In this one, I’m trying out the newly released GPT-4.

Let’s compare and contrast.

Note: here are the GPT-4 p5js editor sketches and here are the GPT-3 sketches. The code for each is also linked under the images.

“On...

Parametric Art Systems

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Parametric Art Systems from Denis Kozlov on Vimeo.

The video spans about a decade of work and much more of research. Below I’ve gathered some links providing additional details, examples and explanations.

More videos:
vimeo.com/211742962 - Procedural Aircraft Design Toolkit
vimeo.com/703402772 - Procedural Creature Generator

The key article covering my vision, process and approach. I’ve notably advanced in each since the time of writing, but still find it largely relevant:
the-working-man.org/2018/04/procedural-bestiary-and-next-generation.html

A general overview of the technology involved (at the time of writing my primary 3D tool being Houdini). No prior knowledge required:
the-working-man.org/2017/04/procedural-content-creation-faq-project.html

The initial 2015 essay noticed by ACM SIGGRAPH:
the-working-man.org/2015/04/on-wings-tails-and-procedural-modeling.html

While the above links mostly focus on...

Forecast

Forecast is a long-form generative art project coming to fxhash on 16th Feb 2023. This article contains info about techniques I used, and some rambling about concepts and emotions.

You can see the project live on fxhash here and explore the variations before it drops.

Using ChatGPT to implement Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

Sol LeWitt was an artist who worked across many mediums but is probably most famous for his Wall Drawings series. These artworks aren’t actually drawings at all but, rather, instructions for drawings.

The instructions have been implemented in many ways, by many different people, revealing how they are at once prescriptive and ambiguous. Control over a final output lies somewhere between the instruction giver and the instruction follower. The idea popped into my head to put these instructions into ChatGPT, and ask for p5js sketches.

Distributing Randomness

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A good pseudorandom number generator gives an even distribution of results from 0 to 1 but sometimes in generative art we might want something different. It’s possible to skew or weight the distribution of results, so that certain outcomes are more or less likely. This is useful to manage rarities in a collection, or to control positions, dimensions and other choices within each piece.

This article is a guide on how I manage randomness in my projects. There are two main methods I use:

Skewing randomness across a continuous range with mathematical equations.

Defining discrete options and...

Playing dice: Randomness, determinism and the quantum world

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As generative artists we use “randomness” all the time but what does that actually mean? What’s the difference between unexpected, random and chaotic? Does the universe contain any truly random events, or is it operating like clockwork, ticking from one event to the next?

I got thinking about determinism while discussing randomness in my article ‘What is Generative Art’. After a bit of research, I realised that I needed to know more about quantum physics to be able to investigate determinism in the way I wanted to. I did a 12-week introductory course about the quantum world and,...