I’m not sure what I think about this whole skeumorphism trend in gen art. I mean, it’s sometimes aesthetically interesting and technically impressive but does imitating analogue techniques add value beyond nostalgia?

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I remember working on a wood cut back in art school, busting my ass off to imitate the way I used to draw with a pencil, when an old teacher asked me why I would fight the material to achieve something that could be better achieved in a different medium.

I think generative/digital art has enourmous potential to express ideas that are inexpressable in any other medium. Systems, behaviour, interactivity, complexity and non-linearity are just a few examples

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Golan Levin @golan · Apr 23, 2022

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That’s a great thread. To my own surprise, I’ve been tinkering on something pertinent to this, a simulacrum of a diagram in an old book, and thinking about why. I think there are a few reasons, which echo some of the remarks in that thread.

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