I found the techniques in Amy Goodchild’s article to be fascinating because I think when art comes to mind people think of traditional art. Which commonly include ceramics, paintings and perhaps sculptures but generative art is almost like its own medium. I hadn’t thought much about generative art until now but I am especially interested in true randomness. Seeing as it comes from nature but is simply displayed in a way in which is more stimulating its quite captivating. A form of true randomness that comes to mind for me is the sky, it seems a bit obvious but it never truly looks the same but that’s what makes it so interesting to me. Of course this can be applied into a digital form like with weather and such which is a representation of data.
Amy’s demonstration of distribution with dots reminded me of stippling a drawing technique also used with dots. In drawing it can be quite time consuming to make a piece solely through this but ultimately it’s the same concept depending on the distribution of the dots the image made up will largely change. In addition to the pressure of the dots (meaning the soft or hardness making them appear lighter or darker).
I also found Automatism intriguing because I think when people are doing something they always seem to think about it with a vision or idea in mind. But in this example with drawing one is simply drawing to draw without much thought, as an artist myself I relate but don’t at the same time. During my drawing process most of the time I begin with a plan and know exactly what I want to draw but somewhere in the middle ignore the plan and just start drawing without thinking, kind of like I just let my hands do the work. I find that some of my best work comes from doing this. But when I’m stuck or just seem to run out of ideas, letting my hands do the work seems to end with me creating something unexpected.