October 27 - 29, 2006
Generative – Experimental software by students of the IGMA (Institute of Modern Architecture Theory and Design) at Stuttgart University, directed by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
Opening: Introduction: Gerd de Bruyn, Stuttgart University. Djing: Moritz von Pein, Kahlwild

This new generation of software programmes offer the ability to simulate processes in real time, to visualise raw data and to translate interactive applications into code. They reach out into the installation space from which they in turn receive data. They work with chance operations and generative algorithms. Theme for all these works is the city, and most take Stuttgart as a vantage point.
There is a postcard machine that produces unseen sights through a mixture of user interaction and chance; a sound installation, also interactive, which allows layering the noises of the city to create an original soundscape; a situationist guide for a stroll through the city compiled by a random generator and printed out to carry along.
An abstract piece centres around a camera recording the comings and goings of visitors, then graphically represents proceedings on a monitor in real time. Another programme keeps track of traveller movements at Stuttgart main station, charting arriving and departing trains immediately. Not least, cellular automata will render the growth of cities as dynamic systems in a processual approach.
All programmes are written with Processing, a Java-based computer language, which has been refined for use in Code Art.

Software authors: Christian Ristau, Marco Läber, Nilgün Serbest, Steffen Braun, Aline Otte, Volker Baur, Moritz von Pein and Daniela Staengle.

Thanks go out to Casino IT, Stuttgart University, for technical and organisational support.

Further Information: www.uni-stuttgart.de/igma/generativ and www.markovvonpein.de

The exhibition catalogue with an explanation on the concept of the exhibition, a text by Gerd de Bruyn and all the works by the students (ca. 8 MB, only German version available) is here to download > click here please!