Bruce Sterling on generative art

Bruce Sterling: Keynote on atemporality, http://www.transmediale.de/en/keynote-bruce-sterling-us-atemporality
6.02.2010, Transmediale, Berlin
Timecode: 15:06 – 16:11

“[...]
And there is other elements which are native to our period, they didn’t really work before – such as generative art.
I take generative art quite seriously, I like to see it move into areas like generative law or maybe generative philosophy. The thing I like in generative art is that kind a deranged human intentionality.
I mean, lets say, a generative men in a factory and you writing code for a computer fabricater and you yourself dont know the outcome of this code, you do not know however physically xxxxxxxx itself. Therefore you end up in creating objects to the sort of bleached of human intent. Now the xxxxxxxx content in the software, but the software is not visible in the finished product. To me its of great interest, that this objects – and designs, and animations and so forth, now exist in minus (?) because they really are in a strange way divorced from of any kind of historical ideology.
They’re just not human.
[...]”

(xxxxxxxx = elegant mumbling)