Mass Change – text data from 11th Hour movie

• disharmony
• superior lifeform
• selfishness
• waste
• irreputable damage
• greed factor in human civilization
• not in tune with nature
• why aren’t we responding?
• what are the forces that are blocking change?
• progress means nature was an eternally abundant resource
• oil & agriculture caused population growth
• ancient sunlight created fossil fuels
• find harmony between people and nature
• non-renewable energy sources must be the anchor of the system now
• global disturbance
• magnified human race inside ecology
• more caution
• human actions lead to chemical imbalance in atmosphere
• approaching climate tipping point; the loss of control
• environmental refugees
• figure out how to change human ways
• convergence of crises all of which are concern for life
• every living system in biosphere is at a rate of decline, not stable or improving
• planet is seamless
• no “away” from pollution

Data Visualization Process

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Generative Definitions, Concepts, & Key-Words

Generative Art is:

• “a term given to work which stems from concentrating on the processes involved in producing an artwork, usually (although not strictly) automated by the use of a machine or computer, or by using mathematic or pragmatic instructions to define the rules by which such artworks are executed.” ~ Adrian Ward
• “any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, which is then set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art.” ~ Philip Galanter

Terms & Short Descriptors:

• Natural language Rules => code behind the artwork that remains relatively hidden
• Algorithm => often mathematical to automatically or semi-automatically generate expressions in more conventional artistic forms
• Process-Based => functions as a dynamic complex systems able to generate endless variations
• Rules / Instructions-Based => external to the artist that either produces works of art or is itself
  a work of art
• Determinants => programmed to define the space/environment and, thus, what data is collected
• Autonomous System => system is set into motion with some degree of self-activation or incorporates inputs from a user or environment
• Dynamic Complex Systems => generates endless variations complex relations of production
• Mirror of Nature => maintains a naturalness of the industrial object
• Synthesis => between art and science
• Visual Representation => of  complex processes
• Random Factors => produces organic behavior
• Evolutionary Process => main technique of development and main message of
• Output => system that produces the series of resources
• Input => data or environmental factors retrieved from the system
• Balanced Output => trying to achieve this while capturing decisions as logical structures