autonomy

I always go back to Philip Galanter's definition of generative art. I think he's really the expert on this. I go with him defining generative art as any kind of art practice in which the artist uses a system, set in motion with some degree of autonomy, thereby creating or contributing to a completed work of art.

Christiane Paul, Christiane Paul on Curating Cohen’s AARON

We kind of have in the Autonomous Forest quite a heavy focus on autonomy as an absence of economic exploitation and a sturdy ecosystem, as in there's not much flux of a lot of plants, for example, dying off or something like this.

Paul Kolling, terra0 on the Autonomous Forest