Dziga Vertov
Man with a Movie Camera

(An excerpt from the diary of a cameraman.)
For viewers attention:
This film presents an experiment in the Cinematic Communication of visible events.
Without the aid of intertitles. (A film without intertitles)
Without the aid of a scenario. (A film without a scenario.)
Without the aid of theatre. (A film without sets, actors, etc.)
This experimental work aims at creating a truly international absolute language of Cinema based on its total separation from the language of Theatre and Literature.
Author-Supervisor of the Experiment Dziga Vertov.

A truly international absolute language of moving imagery based upon its total separation from the language of Cinema.

Moving imagery based upon pure process and pure algorithm, self-generating imagery emerging from multia-agent, multi-causal complex processes occurring in nature and society, including those of evolution, both inside and outside of the computer.

These are the direct and indirect visualizations of simulations, running either in real-time or captured as movies from real-time runs, sometimes with that realtime compressed.  They are NOT animations.

Boundariess

Is it art? Big Dog...

Due primarily to time constraints, we will mostly be looking at moving images of complex processes generated inside the computer, rather than at dynamic sculptures based upon the same principles.

Complex processes generated in realtime. -versus-
Movies of complex processes generated in realtime and compressed time.

Analog -versus- Digital processes.

Inside -versus- Outside the computer.

Sime Web Links

Karl Sims

Algorithmic Art Wikipedia

The Algorists, Roman Verostko

Jean-Pierre Hebert, Algorist

biota.org The Artificial Life Project

Digital Biota 2 Cyberbiology

Alife, the Temple of Alife

John Mount's Genetic Art

Mirek's Cellebration - Under CompSci-72-001 on Perkins, Link Classroom #6 IBM machines.

On Our Simulation Pages

Fractals & Strange Attractors

Cellular Automata

Flocking

Evolution

Some selections we may view:

Karl Sims - Particle Dreams (1988)
Karl Sims - Burning Logo (1988)
Karl Sims - Leonardo's Deluge (1989)
Karl Sims - Inner View (1989)
Karl Sims - Panspermia (1990)
Karl Sims - Primordial Dance (1991)
Karl Sims - Liquid Selves (1991)
Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
Karl Sims - The Electronic Canvas (1997)

Some selections we may view:

Andrea Loche and Paul Ashtown on the penguins in BATMAN (1999)
Theo Jansen's Beach Creatures (2007)
Dmetri Terzopoulos, Artificial Fishes (1998)
Steven Rooke, Works in Progress (1998)