Vitruvian Paint Machine (image) by Conditional Design. And there are many more processes and workshops and hands on rule based design. dont miss the manifesto for artists and designers. “nstead of operating under the terms of Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Media Art or Sound Design, we want to introduce Conditional Design as a term that refers to our approach rather than our chosen media. We conduct our activities using the methods of philosophers, engineers, inventors and mystics.”
founded by Alisa Andrasek in 2001. Andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design. Biothing is a trans-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational systems for design.
image: Agentware research 06_09, directed by Alisa Andrasek, AA DRL Probotics student team with BIOTHING, long-span roofscape STL model
by Eva Schindling, 2009. A fluid dynamics simulation using sound as input. Using various soft- and hardware applications, a phyiscal three dimensional object results at the end of the transformation chain.
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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.
via spectre
