Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life

by Mitchell Whitelaw

The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new media artists adopt, and adapt, techniques from artificial life.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

293 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sam Sanford · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent survey of "artificial-life art" - art based on self-organization, emergence, algorithms, evolution, artificial intelligence, etc.

[Dora Raymaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives a sound overview of art and artificial life, mostly from the art perspective and for an art (rather than science) oriented audience. It has enough depth to be academically interesting, but is accessible to a broader audience.