Accretor, by the Dutch artists Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen, is a generative artwork that adopts and adapts artificial life techniques to produce intricate three-dimensional forms. This article introduces and analyzes Accretor, considering the enigmatic quality of the generated objects and in particular the role of materiality in this highly computational work. Accretor demonstrates a t...

This paper aims to desublimate the Kantian sublime starting with mitigation of enthusiasm which some French philosophers have woven its praise. Contrary what Lyotard and Deleuze argue in their works, Analytics Sublime Kant does not go beyond himself, nor it is hard set up a philosophy subject after reading these pages. Sublime, for two clever readers Kant, any excessive use faculties. But less ...

The contemporary landscape is rife with ruins, from circumscribed tourist attractions to urban decay and demolition sites. When examined, our aesthetic experience of these sites ranges from historical distancing to the sublime and, when found in our local communities (e.g., Providence, RI), to discomfort, displacement, and horror. In particular, this paper is interested in how certain forms of ...

This paper looks at some critical and technical issues of relevance to generative art. In particular, it examines the concept of emergence, looking at its historical origins and salient issues surrounding its classification and meaning for developing generative art. These issues include the hierarchy of levels associated with emergence, recognition and ontology of patterns, prediction and deter...

To produce well-defined device structures having ultrasmall areas in compound semiconductors, it is necessary that lateral variations in doping and composition be realizable having interfacial quality comparable to that presently achieved vertically with techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). This letter describes a novel scheme involving the controlled, patterned sublimation of GaAs,...

Introduction Both Edmund Burke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be grouped among the key thinkers of the eighteenth century. They are widely understood to be quite different from one another, and their outlooks—especially their political-philosophical views—are often contrasted by scholars. Among those who have profitably contrasted Burke with Rousseau is the early twentieth century literary schol...

This essay interweaves Stefan Morawski’s critique of postmodernism and Jean-François Lyotard’s expression the postmodern sublime as “the presentation unpresentable” in a wide-ranging appraisal culmination age. juxtaposition finds concept two modes negative sublime: dynamical exemplified stockpiles nuclear warheads scattered widely across globe, mathematical represented by omniscient electronic ...