Evolutionary Art

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Self organized painting, Action Painting	The starting point of the whole art process, which consists of conventional and an evolutionary part, may be compared to the not-figurative, not-geometric painting, which is a form of the self- organized painting. Its roots are laid in the action painting. The creation of an art discipline, which partly creates itself through self-organizing of the material was a goal which existed long before an integration of evolutionary art was established. Self organized art objects depend on random processes as well as on the material used.
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The Part of the Artist	The task of the artist is to select the material, to start and stop the processes. These tasks mainly take place in the evolutionary art process.
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Dripping according to Jackson Pollock	The painting process itself is mainly influenced by Jackson Pollock. Starting from his technique called "Dripping" a variety of punch, fall and flown colour techniques were developed which now build the concepts of the self organized painting.
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Action Painting and Dynamic Picture Creation	Action painting depends on the used painting method and the time component. The material is self organized under the regulation of the artist. Hence, under regard of special painting methods, the art creating process is not a static but a dynamic process which consist of many interim steps. Decision of the artist are essential, they create the interim steps of the art work.
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Rules for Stopping	This kind of working is not to be seen independent of the decision, when to stop. This decision occurs in all art work, in fact artist has to decide, when his work is finished. Own principles are usually used for this decision. If interim steps are the object of the art process, the critical question, whether to end the process or not is, if another interesting state can be reached from the actual point or not.
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Documentation of the interim steps	From this point we had to search for methods, which allow to document the interim steps of the whole process. The photography was the natural method which had to be integrated in the painting process. This was essential, because after each decision to continue the art process, the artists has to decide, whether to take a picture or not. If so, other decision are to be made referring to section of the image.
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Selection of the Point in Time and Section	These pictures should not be seen as a documentation like pictures taking during a performance. Through the selection in time and section the photos contain the compository attributes, which lead to independent art.
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Photos as a pre-biotic component	The photos may be compared to the pre-biotic components like nucleic acids to living beings. They are components and the original while the attribute "live" is formed through time and space. Through this analogy motives and segments of pictures are seen as elements, which take place in the evolutionary art process.
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Reproduction and Variability of the Photography	The basic attributes of the photography "reproduction" and variability through exposure and the usage of filters and concentration of the development chemicals show, that photography is potential candidate for a evolutionary art process. The here described art process uses instead the wider range of computer aided picture design.
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Transfer through Photo CD	A computer aided art process leads to the necessity to transfer the analogous pictures to a digital representation. A description of principals of digital photography is omitted her. In a studio in which colors on acrylic basics and acrylic finish are used, the danger of damage for a digital equipment is much higher than for a simple photo. The cheapest way to transfer the pictures from an analogue form is to produce a photo-cd. Slides and negatives are digitized and recorded to CD.
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Selection for Digitizing	This step leads to another selection process. The artist has to decide, which picture and which section of it has to be used. This decision happens at a point of time which is factual separated from the creation time of the paintings and the photographed paintings. At least, the time for developing the slides must be considered.
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Selection for Transfer	After the slides are selected and photo-cd is produced, another selection step is triggered. Now the pictures or the sections of the pictures are transferred to a digital memory. The simplest way of keeping track of the pictures is to organize the pictures into the file system. An advanced method would be to organize the pictures into a database.
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Generation integrated memory	This memory is the basic for the computer based evolutionary process in which for example a selection of transferred and unchanged motives are used as parent population or in which individuals are stored through out generations so that they can be used as elements for another evolutionary process.
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