Robert Allison
DIGITAL ARTISTRobert Allison is a digital artist from London, now living in Lisbon and resident at MILL (Makers in Little Lisbon). His work focuses on the generative, using computation to create unique experiences, exploring the potential of the purely computational, the mechanistic, as this approaches the boundary with the natural, the tactile, the ‘real’.
PROJECT
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VIDEO | GENERATIVE ARTSkyline
In this project self assembling cellular habitations emerge from the mist. Two intertwined generative processes, one for the 'structures' and one for the 'background', reflect the dualism of our natural and artificial worlds.
The process restarts after some minutes to produce an entirely new and unseen panorama every time.
This project was shown at chumbo, between 10th - 19th of November 2021.
Cellular Automata for Generative Art
This cellular automaton uses Von Neumann neighborhoods as its underlying structure – cells are connected horizontally and vertically, but not diagonally.
The first process uses a simple rule set to determine ‘life’ and ‘death’ for each cell. This rule set, one of many possible rule sets, was discovered to induce the sharply defined self organising structures.
The second process bleeds colours between the top and bottom halves, using a kind of binary DNA to encode complexities beyond simple colour values. It is ‘gated’ by the first process to realise the overall effect.
PODCAST
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PODCAST |
Robert Allison speaks about Generative Art and cellular automata.
We spoke to Robert Allison about the origins of his work, the limits and the enormous potential of creative software. A fluid conversation about the history and the future of computing, from generative art to machine learning and analog networks.
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