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    Gene Kogan Makes Movies with Coding Agents Alone

    Artist experiments with simple code rules to generate films without image or video models.

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    Gene Kogan began experimenting earlier this year with coding agents to create amusing movies. He avoided image or video models entirely. Drawing from pre-AI generative art, Kogan returned to his algorithmic roots by writing simple rules in code. Those rules were meant to produce strange and unexpected results on their own. The project reflects his ongoing focus on creative coding and generative tools.

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    @genekoganThe story behind this work began earlier this year when I started experimenting with making coding agents create amusing movies without the help of image or video models. Inspired by pre-AI generative art, I wanted to return to my algorithmic roots, creating simple rules through code from which would emerge strange and delightful things. What came out of these experiments was a kind of slop I had never seen before in my 10+ years of slopcraft.
    @tyaagnliu./spiral {Gene Kogan} 2017 to 2022 were quite a special five years for a lot of artists working in this field, with all the new tools, the excitement around creative coding reaching a much wider audience, and of course AI. And it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that with @ml4a_, @genekogan taught a generation of artists how to work with machine learning. This year felt like the first time, in ourselves and around us, that enough time had passed to look back and realise it isn't the near past anymore. That's what makes you want a checkpoint, a way to measure the time, the practice and everything that moves around them. So having Gene in the show made complete sense, and it would have felt like something missing without him. Really glad to have his work in ./spiral. Deep dive in the post below.

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    @genekoganThe story behind this work began earlier this year when I started experimenting with making coding agents create amusing movies without the help of image or video models. Inspired by pre-AI generative art, I wanted to return to my algorithmic roots, creating simple rules through code from which would emerge strange and delightful things. What came out of these experiments was a kind of slop I had never seen before in my 10+ years of slopcraft.
    @tyaagnliu./spiral {Gene Kogan} 2017 to 2022 were quite a special five years for a lot of artists working in this field, with all the new tools, the excitement around creative coding reaching a much wider audience, and of course AI. And it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that with @ml4a_, @genekogan taught a generation of artists how to work with machine learning. This year felt like the first time, in ourselves and around us, that enough time had passed to look back and realise it isn't the near past anymore. That's what makes you want a checkpoint, a way to measure the time, the practice and everything that moves around them. So having Gene in the show made complete sense, and it would have felt like something missing without him. Really glad to have his work in ./spiral. Deep dive in the post below.