Autoshop is the culmination of over a year's work on many autonomous, A.I.,
generative and 'creative' studies. It brings together many important aspects
of research regarding creativity, perception, notions of value and/or authenticity.
As well as providing a central focal point for a 'generative' multi-media
system, it is parodying interface design and (both traditional and new media)
software development.
Autoshop takes the clean-cut, productive interface of a well-known
commercial software product (Adobe® Photoshop® in case you hadn't
noticed) and imbues it with ideas of self-generative, autonomous, (creative?)
influence and activity. Autoshop is capable of being both a tool for generating
digital images under (variable) human control, and a play-pen for artificial/digital
lifeforms, A.I. bots, and pseudo-chaos systems. The output is entertaining,
startling and thoroughly usable.
And much more.
autoshop-100.img.sit.hqx v1.0.0 (Macintosh PPC) 2.163mb
autoshop-100.sit.sea v1.0.0 (Macintosh PPC) 2.34mb
Currently, support for Win32 platforms is being considered. If you would like to convince us to support Win32, please drop us a line.
Any new plugins you get should be copied into the Plug-Ins folder where your application resides.
Copyright
Written by Adrian Ward. This software forms part of a project for the
Media Theoretical Frameworks module at MediaLab Arts, Plymouth University.
Not to be exchanged for money. This is parody software and must not be
distributed as commercial software.
For press/media enquiries, please email adrian@signwave.co.uk.
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