digi wha?

The following collages were made using Don Relyea's Real Time Contextual Art Generator, an amazing little program I stumbled upon. In a nutshell, the program grabs images from Google based on word inputs, then rearranges them into collages using an algorithm. What I really like about it is that the only choices made are in selecting the word(s) to input and choosing from some limited effects menus (like transparency level): everything else is generated by the program. These images are just some snap shots of the process, since the program generates an endless succession of images at the push of a key. Get the program and play with it, it's fun.

I quickly discovered that putting in artists' names produces good results, probably because the images selected are already good.

Let's start with Andy.

As a friend of mine reminded me in his blog, yesterday was Andy Warhol's birth date, so here are some tributes.

The first few were generated by inputting just his name:

This next one evokes a space, maybe a cathedral, but is actually a detail of a painting of knives:

Here's one of my favorites:

Then I put in "Warhol" and a second word: this one is "Dylan":

and this one is "factory":

Anyway, you get the idea. More collages to come...