designing processes rather than art

a workshop conducted by bruce sterling, 25-28 November 2008 at fabrica.it. Found via the spectre mailinglist, a post by Marco Mancuso who posted his critical essay Generative Nature - Aesthetics, repetitiveness, selection and adaptation.

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Tafel 23 - Cristatella

Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), by Ernst Haeckel, 1898.A flickr set by EricGjerde. Another online version is available via Kurt Stueber (Index aller 100 Tafeln).


Radiolarian Print

by robert hodgin. forms and shapes inspired by biologist, naturalist, phiolosopher, artist Ernst Haeckel, who compiled  thousands of new species illustrated and described in “kunstformen der natur”. Being a big fan of Hackel’s drawings myself, i am equaly amazed by robert’s translations expressed within the language of code.

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