The Abstract Organism
Towards a Prehistory for A-Life Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3525352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitchell Whitelaw (0000-0003-4714-8507, (educator), School of Creative Communication and Culture Studies, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia. E-mail: <>., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 345-348 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/00240940152549302 |
| OpenAlex | W2077272523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The author examines historical precedents for contemporary art practice using artificial life, in particular in the work of Paul Klee and Kasimir Malevich. Similarities are identified between artificial life and the philosophical tradition of organicism; specific examples from Klee and Malevich indicate that those artists were engaged in a form of creative organicist thought that imagined the realization of living structures in artificial media
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Artificial life · Biology · Epistemology · Organicism · Organism · Prehistory · Realization (probability) · Art, Technology, and Culture · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2016 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |