ALife Art Preparation

Overview

As a bit of a break, we’re going to discuss how ALife is used with/in art today!

AI Policy

As a reminder, you are not allowed to use genAI to summarize or produce your reading check responses. These checks are for you to engage with the material and start thinking about things before class. It’s okay if you don’t understand everything ahead of time!

Basic Learning Objectives

Before class, you should be able to:

• Explain a few examples of ALife art

Advanced Learning Objectives

After class, you should be able to:

• Discuss how art can be used to explore ALife

Reading

Read the following:

• Artificial Life in Art and Music
• Section 7.4 (Aesthetic Ecosystems) in Biological Bits
• A Survey of Recent Practice of Artificial Life in Visual Art - probably just skim this for some more examples if you are curious, it’s mostly just a list of other things to look at and includes some nice figures that are difficult to find otherwise.

Checks

Submit answers to the following on Moodle:

• What is your favorite example of artificial life and art? Why?