representation

I think it pulls together a lot of obsessions I've had for over 20 years on the fundamental nature of the digital image, on simulation, and how the two combine, and how it all works in tandem with the history of painting and the history of visual representation, from medieval forms of representation into the Renaissance and then particularly into post-photography Cubism and those ways of representing the world.

Casey Reas, Elevating Generative Art: Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter

Everything that comes out of the computer tends to be perfect by default. It takes more information to describe an imperfect object than it does to describe a perfect object.

Tyler Hobbs, Tyler Hobbs on Algorithmic Aesthetics