ART AND COMPUTATION

What is computational art? How does it involve us in unprecedented aesthetic relationships, making us part of works and even transfor-ming them? This book looks at how computation causes an ontolo-gical shift that turns dynamics, causality, and cognition into central components of art, artistic practices, and aesthetics. Computational art is more conceptual than perceptual; it is performative, experien-tial, situated, experimental, creative, and intersubjective. Computa-tional art is unstable, generative, and irreducible, and as such, it has unique transformative potential. ''Art and Computatio''n calls attention to computation as a tool, material, medium, and art. It calls for de-veloping aesthetic experiences predicated on our engagementwith and attunement to the computational core of art.