[eu-gene] Generative or not? cubo23

[Adrian Ward]

On 21 Feb 2006, at 09:38 am, rob at robmyers.org wrote:

> *Specific* intent is easy enough to embody. But the *general*  
> intent that it is
> an instance of is always human. We could write a program to  
> randomly decide
> what to write a program to do and then to code it up, but this  
> might not be
> very interesting as we would have very little in common with the  
> meta-program.
> It would probably make a piece about conses.

What's wrong with that? If the program felt conses were important  
enough to warrant making an artwork about them, let it do so. We're  
capable of finding many things interesting, even stuff we have little  
in common with.

If you were really worried about this, you could code up other meta- 
programs that appreciated the conses piece. And then put them  
together in a subdirectory called "Art Gallery".

Strangely compelling.

-- 
Ade