GenArtWareIdeas

know.concept.GenerativeMedia

Currently I am investigating/researching posible strategies for developing an open standard and solution for wider use/acceptance of generative media. This work is part of pruposal for GenArtLab I am organising (hopefully in next few months in Zagreb) as workshop/discussion event that would stir up this field.

Current problems (most overlapping) with wider adoption of GenerativeMedia principles and products :

I am taking on research on GenArtMedia (hardware & software) options and trying to map information as I go along in the Wiki web.

Most current ideas are related to:


- - - - savannah.nongnu.org/projects/genartware/ - - - -
GenArtWare is a project of producing/developing several free software toops/applications that are supposed to enable (dis)playing, authoring and transcoding of generative media content (be it sound, graphics, video, 3D or integrated multimedia).

With this software we hope to establish a format/standard that would help introducing new qualities into the media/digital art.

These are primarly variability and generativity of media (meaning, being able to reproduce the source material more or less differently every time... without actuall change of the musical score or visual composition).

Multimedia Institute, non-profit NGO in Zagreb is working on this with a number of individuals and associated groups.

At the moment there is no code development activity, as we are firstly trying to get a list of resources (research being done so far, related software that can be used or used for reference).

Our prime directive is to have working proof of concept on as many platforms as possible with focus on GNU/Linux and other open systems (Darwin, OpenBeOS,...). We will develop crosplatform software (and open standards) which doesn't use any closed code libraries. However due to a early stage it is hard to predict exact methodology and developmant path (will we use C++, C/+/+ or Python as programming language).


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