[mortenjorck]

This may sound ridiculous, but I think this has the potential to be a development as foundation-shaking as Modernism itself. There has been plenty of algorithmically-derived art over the past 30 years, but generative pieces inevitably look like math – they are interesting curiosities, sometimes quite beautiful, but they don’t challenge the mind like any of the major movements of the past 150 years.

This is different because, while still just math, it’s modeled on the processes of human perception. And when successfully executed, it plays on human perception in ways that were formerly the exclusive domain of humans – Chagall, DiChirico, Picasso – gifted with some sort of insight into that perception.

Future iterations of this kind of processing, with even higher-order symbol management could get really weird, really fast.