[eu-gene] discussion about Caligraft?

[Jim Andrews]

http://www.caligraft.com is beautiful work, Ricard. Also interesting from a
typographic point of view.

i was looking today at the visual poetry of jim leftwich at
http://tinyurl.com/8b9l6 (the collabs with john crouse, if you scroll down)
and leftwich's work from his book STACEAL: http://tinyurl.com/cst99 . it
struck me that leftwich has quite a deep engagement with visual art (unusual
among visual poets) yet the language is usually not simply treated as image
(unusual among visual artists), and those twin engagements/concerns, and the
intensity of them are what makes his work important, i think, in poetry.

where would you locate your own concerns amid language and computation? are
you interested in visual poetry? writing? visual art and computation? do you
aspire to poetry? where are your aspirations concerning "computational
typography"? you've situated them in 'generative art', at least for the
purposes of this forum.

typographical concerns are common to people who use language in lots of
different ways. typography is of interest to people who only use a
wordprocessor to those who are poet-programmers. and to those who regard
themselves as designers. and many other types.

in any case, i really enjoyed perusing your work and the presentation of it.
thanks very much. your notion of computational typography is a good one.
definitely some mileage there. which is important to any idea.

ja
http://vispo.com



> Hi,
>
> I've been checking quite regulary the links on the generative.net
> site, but
> didn't know about the mailing list.  I was discussing with a
> friend of mine
> about a project I had made and how I would appreciate feedback on
> it, so he
> pointed me out here.
> After seeing one day of activity on the mailing list, I think
> this is the right
> place to post this and to create a bit of discussion on it.
>
> Well, I would like to present you Caligraft.  It's a project that tries to
> discover and explore the field of what I would like to call Computational
> Calligraphies, which is very tightly related to generative art.
> In the Info
> section of the project website there is much more information about the
> motivation and intent of Caligraft.
>
> In the Exhibition section you can also find the works in the form
> of Images &
> Videos (recommended for most users), downloadable Applications
> (requires good
> CPU, OpenGL graphics card and Java RE 1.4.2) or finally as a
> OpenGL web applet
> (which requires the same things as the applications, but is very
> experimental
> and MIGHT CRASH YOUR BROWSER).  You can also find the Processing
> sourcecode and
> a link to the library it uses.
>
> I don't want to bother anymore those who don't want to know about
> it.  So here
> is the link to the project website:
> http://www.caligraft.com
>
> I would really appreciate that any comments, criticism and
> feedback could create
> a little bit of discussion.  Generative art is still very new to
> me and all you
> could apport would help a lot.
>
> Thank you
> ricard