I’m looking to explore new visual artists for inspiration, particularly in photography and generative coding. Who are your favorite artists in these fields? Any recommendations for books (photo albums), websites, or projects to check out?
Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
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Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#2Check out The Poet Engineer – Amazing work in Touchdesigner
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#3Objkt.com has a lot of great curated collections, and it's a rabbit hole.
Similar with Highlight:
https://highlight.xyz/explore/curated?period=30d
Here's a guy I found recently that I like:
https://x.com/perfectl00p https://www.reddit.com/user/PERFECTLO0P/?sort=top https://objkt.com/@perfectloop
NFTs are interesting. When they were originally hyped up, I didn't see the point when you could just save the work. But, I've learned to understand them more as 'signed' copies. Also, there's pride in knowing that you sponsored someone before they became known.
Finally, I love generative art. I'm a huge fan. But, too few works appeal to the human condition, and they're often just algorithmic designs.
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#4You might like this combination of photography and computation: https://www.instagram.com/dirkkoy/
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#5Gregory Crewdson
Benoit Paille
Anders Hoff
Davide Quayola
Robbie Barrat
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#6I love the early generative artists:
- Frieder Nake
- Vera Molnar
- Manfred Mohr
More recently people like Casey Reas, who developed the language Processing, Jared Tarbell (https://complexification.net), and Anders Hoff (https://inconvergent.net) are the people I'd look at. Hoff works in Lisp if that's your thing.
For a place to look at the history of generative art, the best resource is still http://dada.compart-bremen.de/
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#7I love the early generative artists: - Frieder Nake - Vera Molnar - Manfred Mohr More recently people like Casey Reas, who developed the language Processing, Jared Tarbell ( https://complexification.net ), and Anders Hoff ( https://inconvergent.net ) are the people I'd look at. Hoff works in Lisp if that's your thing. For a place to look at the history of generative art, the best resource is still http://dada.compart…
https:// seems broken. Need to use: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
Re: Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?
#8On photography, in no real order, and probably overweight on street photography.
- Henri Cartier Bresson - Joseph Koudelka - Gordon Parks - Phil Penman - Alan Schiller - Annie Leibovitz - Micha bar Am - Bruce Gilden - Steve McCurry - Constantine Manos - Dorothea Lange
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#9Generative art - I produced a collaboration with Gee’s Bend, Anna Lucia, and the Artist Rights Society.
It’s called “generations.”
It was a pretty crazy project that took 2+ years to produce.
Anna is really talented. The Gee’s Bend quilters are some of the finest artists in America.
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#10May I piggyback here?
What software tools are used for this sort of work?
I'm aware of/have tried:
- Processing (as well as processing.py)
- Nodebox
- OpenSCAD (and its derivative PythonSCAD which allows using Python in it)
EDIT: and METAPOST/Asymptote/TikZ which I forgot to mention
What other tools would folks recommend?