[-empyre-] Process as paradigm

[Yann Le Guennec]

Hello,

I'm very interested in your definition of 'generative image'.

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/714-catalogue (p55)

The text describes well what i call 'variable pictures' (eg, a networked 
still picture, always changing, and removing its precedent state, 
according to some online activities) or 'evolving pictures' (eg a 
networked still picture transforming itself, according to some online 
data accumulation processes).

I think that the term 'generative' is now closely linked to what is 
called 'generative art', dealing with algorithms and systems, looking 
for some kinds of emergence. That's ok, but a 'generative artwork' is 
also often defined by its autonomy and self-containment. Is this 
approach compatible with the picture as a result of a process where the 
involved system is wide and open, closely linked to other systems (the 
internet + its users , for example)?

Furthermore, with the expression 'generative image', one can think that 
the image generates something, not that the image is generated by a 
system or process ?


Best,

Yann Le Guennec
http://www.yannleguennec.com/