Algorithmic aesthetics. Migunov A.

This book is about how to overcome the fear of the possibility of explaining the secret of art, before the fact that "algebra" can really "believe harmony". Hence the main intrigue of the book: when you need to stop (and is it possible to do it), so that in the general harmful thesis “computer - continuation of the artist’s hand” does not acquire a shade of a real threat to the artist from the computer. The problem of using digital computer technology in art is a modern reading of one of the significant topics of the last time related to the relationship between art and science, art and technology. This topic worried almost all philosophers of art and art historians since the appearance of the possibility of technical reproduction of works of art. The authors pay special attention to the fine art, which until the very recent time stored loyalty to the object (material) format of their works, and include in the problem field of algorithmic aesthetics not only a set of problems associated with the use of a computer as an instrumental tool, but also problems associated with attempts to create Actually computer models of creativity, which are undertaken in the framework of "automatic" and "artificial" arts.