Casey Reas’ Eyeo talk Response

While this talk contained a large number of very interesting random based artworks, I felt that it lacked a point. While it was stated that different balances of randomness and control explore different concepts, there was little analysis of this point. I would like to do this analysis myself, but the reason it is so difficult is because fundamentally what was described is a tool, and the primary purpose of of the talk seems to be to emphasize what the randomness itself brings to art, even when done with simple graphics. I personally felt that the most interesting and aesthetic pieces were where the algorithms were the most sophisticated, as the results had a geometric appearance at each static moment but moved very organically. However, as I mentioned this juxtaposition was under-analyzed, and mostly this was just a series of very cool images and some hint of the underlying algorithms, at least to me.

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