“Flowpoints”: Generative Image Creation Method Using Optical Flow / Open Forum #3

- Hector Rodriguez


Friday, July 9, 2010 (7:00-9:00 pm)
 FPC – Open studio – Forum
The talk will last for an hour followed by discussion. / FORUM begins at 7:00pm with a simple pizza party.

There is a tradition of contemporary art that aims to break away from preconceived goals. The aesthetic form and order of the work no longer precede the means or techniques employed. Instead of starting out with a predefined idea of the final outcome, artistic work unfolds as the experimental exploration of a set of technical operations.

The artist starts out by choosing one or more computational procedures (algorithms) without …

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