Evolutionary art is a branch of

generative art Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that wo ...

, in which the artist does not do the work of constructing the artwork, but rather lets a system do the construction. In evolutionary art, initially generated art is put through an iterated process of selection and modification to arrive at a final product, where it is the artist who is the selective agent. Evolutionary art is to be distinguished from BioArt, which uses living organisms as the material medium instead of paint, stone, metal, etc.

Overview

In common with biological

evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

through

natural selection Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations. Charle ...

animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starti ...

, the members of a population undergoing artificial evolution modify their form or behavior over many reproductive generations in response to a selective regime. In interactive evolution the selective regime may be applied by the viewer explicitly by selecting individuals which are aesthetically pleasing. Alternatively a

selection pressure Any cause that reduces or increases reproductive success in a portion of a population potentially exerts evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure, driving natural selection. It is a quantitative description of the amount of ...

can be generated implicitly, for example according to the length of time a viewer spends near a piece of evolving art. Equally, evolution may be employed as a mechanism for generating a dynamic world of adaptive individuals, in which the

is imposed by the program, and the viewer plays no role in selection, as in the

Black Shoals {{no footnotes, date=March 2013 Black Shoals is an artificial ecosystem linked to the real time dynamics of the stock market. It was first shown at the Tate Gallery in 2001, and nominated for an Alternative Turner Prize in 2002. A more sophisticate ...

project.

External links

Abstract Genomic Art: An Introduction by Avi L. Friedlich
Thomas Dreher: History of Computer Art, Chap. IV.3: Evolutionary Art"Evolutionary Art Gallery"
by

Thomas Fernandez Thomas Fernandez (born 3 August 1970) is a French former professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, Ameri ...

"Biomorphs"
by

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An ath ...

Genetic Art
a site that evolves images
EndlessForms.com
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114121019/http://endlessforms.com/ , date=2018-11-14 , Collaborative interactive evolution allowing you to evolve 3D objects and have them 3D printed.
"MusiGenesis"
a program that evolves music on a PC
"Evolve"
a program by Josh Lee that evolves art through a voting process.
"Living Image Project"
a site where images are evolved based on votes of visitors.
"An evolutionary art program using Cartesian Genetic Programming"Evolutionary Art on the Web
Interactively generate Mondriaan, Theo van Doesburg, Mandala and Fractal art.
"One mans eyes?"
Aesthetically evolved images by Ashley Mills.

interactive breeding units.

evolved sculptures produced by rapid manufacturing techniques.
"Picbreeder"
Collaborative breeder allowing branching from other users' creations that produces pictures like faces and spaceships.

a tool for image evolution based on Chris Coyne's Context Free Design Grammar.

a three-dimensional ecosystem, where creatures evolve shapes and sounds.
The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and MusicEvolved Turtle Website
Evolved Turtle Website - Evolve art based on Turtle Logo using the Windows app BioLogo.
Evolvotron
- Evolutionary art software

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is an evolutionary artwork created by

Genco Gulan Genco Gulan ( (born 1969 in Turkey) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and ...

Evo Art bibliography
largest online bibliography to evolutionary art and related fields like evolutionary architecture and design, evolutionary

image processing An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...

computational aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

and

computational creativity Computational creativity (also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation) is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cogn ...

as part of the MediaWiki base
Encyclopedia Evolutionary Art"Evomusart. 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design"
Computer art Evolutionary algorithms

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