Algorithmic Aesthetics

This book is about how to overcome the fear of the possibility to explain the secret of art before the "algebra" really can be "believe the harmony". From here and the main intrigue of the book: When you need to stop (and whether it is possible to do this), in order to in general, the brushing the thesis" computer is the continuation of the artist"s hand, did not acquire a shade of a real threat to the artist on the part of the computer.
The problem of using digital computer technologies in art is a modern reading of one of the largest last time associated with the relationship between art and science, art and technology. This topic was worried almost all philosophers of art and art historians since the appearance of the possibility of technical reproduction of works of art.
The authors pay special attention to the visual arts, which until recently kept loyalty to the object (material) format of its works, and include algorithmic aesthetics in the problem field, not only a set of problems associated with the use of a computer as a tool, but also problems, Associated with attempts to create actually computer models of creativity, which are made within the automatic "and" artificial arts