Generative visuals are images or animations produced by systems that create variation through algorithms, rules, data or randomness. They are widely used in digital art, live performance, installations and audiovisual work.
Quayola and Seta’s Transient is an audiovisual concert for two motorized pianos and video projection. The performers improvise with complex algorithms that generate musical and visual structures in real time. The piano is recognizably acoustic, but it no longer represents a protected human tradition standing opposite the machine. Because the instruments are motorized, the boundary…
If you have ever watched a stage backdrop that seemed to breathe with the music, or wandered through an exhibition where the walls changed as people moved, you have met generative visuals. These are not hand animated frame by frame. They are built as systems. You design rules, add a few controls, connect them to…
