Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts
@inproceedings{McLean2010BricolagePI,
title={Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts},
author={Alex McLean and Geraint A. Wiggins},
booktitle={Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group},
year={2010}
}In this paper we consider artists who create their work by writing algorithms, which when interpreted by a computer generates their plotted drawings, synthesised music, animated digital video, or whatever target medium they have chosen. We examine the demands that such artists place upon their environments, the relationships between concepts and algorithms, and of cognition and computation. We begin by considering an artist’s creative process, and situating it within the bricolage style of…
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