What Is Generative Art? And How Making It Changed My Understanding of the Body

Generative art is anything that couples a code, or set of instructions, with a series of artificial events that can output endless variations, be it baskets, paintings, or NFTs. Before using computers, --a pioneer of generative art and one of the first women to use computers in her practice--created algorithmic art with nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper. However, generative art before computers is a bit like astronomy before the telescope. Certain fields do not come into their own until a tool that bridges the gap between circumscribed human experience and uncircumscribed human imagination comes along. And that, with the advancement of computers and AI, is very much the case with generative art.