week 1. introduction

Aesthetic Computing: A Brief Tutorial
An Introduction to Aesthetic Computing by Paul Fishwick
booklist
conceptual art

computational aesthetics ?

FORM + CODE

Wassily Kandinsky
Victor Vasarely
Sol Lewitt

code artists:
Ben Laposky, 1914-2000

John Whitney Sr., 1918-1995

Herbert W. Franke, 1927-

Lillian Schwartz, 1927-

Harold Cohen, 1928-

Roman Verostko, 1929-

George Legrady, 1950-

Mark Napier, 1961-

John F. Simon Jr., 1963-

John Maeda, 1966-

Mary Flanagan, 1969-

Casey Reas, 1970-

Jared Tarbell, 1973-

Ben Fry, 1975-

EX1:
Take photos of Computational Aesthetics in everyday life.