Interactivity : Whitney Artport Findings

Found under Algorithmic & Software is the Ecosystem project

• important step in game play that the environment and structure of the game feeds (in realtime) off of outside data (generated by the international currency markets and market indexes along with the weather report at JFK airport)
• much of the world “lives” off of these markets today as the global economy is growing more interconnected each day
• transforms the financial world into a 3D world of flocks of birds which makes into nature which reinforces the fact that the global economy is a living thing, as well.
• puts the volatility of the financial markets into a context that everyone can understand : life vs. death, weather patterns, nature
• interesting detail : patron was finance corporation that supplied all of their data for the project

Found under Artificial Intelligence is the ARTificial ART: lines.

• program that creates organic shapes from randomly generated numbers.
• I like the issue that this brings up: the idea of randomness in human form vs. randomness in digital form
• if drawn by hand would this art be considered accomplished? when you take the human element out does it cease to say anything?