The Algorithmic Art of Scott Draves Scott Draves will discuss the software behind his artwork and a massive Internet-wide art collaboration by 450,000 computers and their owners. His Electric Sheep project combines his own open source genetic algorithms with "hot or not" voting and Darwinian evolution. The result is a cyborg creative mind that perpetually creates generative art. The draft form is a screensaver; Scott chooses his own favorites to be re-rendered in high resolution for his museum-quality pieces, of which “Generation 244”, the piece at this dedication purchased by Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, is one. Scott, a PhD graduate of Computer Science at CMU, will also discuss his web-GL project in progress "Video Riot", done as part of his job at Google Inc. in New York City. An earlier peice, “Generation 243” is currently on display on the 5th floor of the Gates Hillman Center.

Scott Draves created the original Flame algorithm in 1991, the Bomb visual-musical instrument in 1995, and the Electric Sheep in 1999. Draves' software artworks are released as open source and have been used for two decades by many other artists and designers in their own work. Draves' work is currently on display at LACMA and has been commissioned by Carnegie Mellon University and the state-of-the-art Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Other works have been acquired by corporate and private collections nationally. Draves' website is permanently included on MoMA.org as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit, and his work has appeared in Wired and Discover magazines, as an official skin for Google Chrome, at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, at Art Basel in Miami, and as the graphic identity for Siggraph 2008.

Draves won an honorable mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 1993 for his Flame algorithm. His work has garnered notice from such competitions as Lumen_Ex in Extremadura, Spain; the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal; ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; Life/Vida Madrid and File Prix Lux in Brazil. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

January 23GHC 6115

3:30 pm Snacks4:00 pm Talk5:00 pm Art Tour

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