[eu-gene] Introducing Daria: An autonomous software artist

[Vitorino RAMOS]

At 08:49 16-02-2005, generative-art LIST (Antoine Schmitt) wrote:

>This is cute...
>(seen on organism)
>
><< start of forwarded material >>
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:29:07 -0600
>From: brian lee dae yung <public_browe at muxspace.com>
>To: organism at music.columbia.edu
>Subject: [organism] Introducing Daria: An autonomous software artist
>
>
>Hello:
>
>I'm stretching the definition of living systems here, but I thought people 
>might
>be interested in my latest project called Daria. She is an autonomous software
>artist that creates art for users in real-time on her site. As an autonomous
>entity, she is responsible for her own bills (hosting, hardware, etc.) and
>employs me to make enhancements to her. You can donate to her via the paypal
>links on the site. Also on the site is information on how she was created and
>future plans for Daria.
>
>http://daria.muxspace.com/
>
>Thanks for looking. Comments welcome to me or her.
>
>Brian
>
>--
>   ====
>brian lee dae yung
>biomimetic art and research
>   mux space . com


 From http://daria.muxspace.com/ main menu => HOW I WORK => TECHNOLOGY, we 
can read:

[...] Ultimately, Daria is software. She is a distributed system of server
components that collectively combine to become an autonomous creative
unit. As Daria grows and matures, her distributed nature will increase
to encompass any number of cooperative server systems. The motivation
behind using a distributed system is not so different from the biological
counterparts that we attempt to model in science. Some common examples
include cooperative insects and swarm intelligence, such as ants and
termites. The mammalian brain itself can be considered a distributed
system in which various lobes and regions of the brain work together
to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Hence, a
similar methodology is used here to incrementally grow an ever larger,
more complex system that tends towards emergent behavior [...]

After 3 years, of my experience of talking to the walls,
it's good to know that finally, Art is "moving to the Implicit":
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_37.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/architopia4.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/aswarm.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Artsbot.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/MC2.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/kafka2ant.html
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html

Regards, Vitorino