Generative Unfoldings

Curated by Nick Montfort, poet and MIT professor of digital media, the Generative Unfoldings exhibition consists of fourteen generative software artworks, running live in the browser. They were commissioned by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and co-presented by the MIT Trope Tank in conjunction with the 2021 CAST Symposium, “Unfolding Intelligence.” Read more.These works are designed for, and best viewed on, desktop or laptop computers. Some works may not function on mobile devices.

An image with a black background and white three-dimensional words, that appear to form a hallway.Can the Subaltern Speak?

Behnaz Farahi

an image of a number of words, seemingly unrelated, going vertically down the screen. Highlighted in yellow are the words 'slow steady rain the old tram creaks out of a window'Concrete

Matt DesLauriers

A nonsensical diagram with a number of circles with variable names and red, green and blue curving lines. A caption reads 'fig. 1 In high dimensions you can have donuts with many holes'.Curse of Dimensionality

Philipp Schmitt

A red background with a number of pixelated black circles and amorphous blobs, with various icons of animals, objects, and vegetables inside them.Gender Generator

Encoder Rat Decoder Rat

A picture of a three-dimensional hilly landscape with multiple images related to money drawn on it: wallets, dollar signs, gold bricks,and bar charts.Greed

Maja Kalogera

A grid made up entirely of hexagons, most of which are blue but with two flowing darker lines traveling through them.Hexells

Alexander Mordvintsev

The word 'hooray' in different handwriting repeated over and over.Letter from C

Hye Min Cho

An image of a rectangle with various letters spread haphazardly throughout, beneath which are a knob and lever. The bottom of the image reads 'OR A CONTRARY ART OF A SINGLE.'P.S.A.A.

Juan Manuel Escalante

A number of pink, yellow, red, green, blue, and orange paths traveling through a three-dimensional maze outlined in white, that replicate different paths the ghosts and the character of Pac-Man can take in the Pac-Man arcade game.Pac Tracer

Andy Wallace

Text, appearingly randomly spaced, containing the words 'How come we manage to grow' - out of the word 'grow' the words 'come, alone, manage, gives, line, another'seem to emerge - 'in all directions, to be in bottomless vanishing points, to be alone in, to the combinations of sounds that encode common'. Some words are cut off at the edge of the image.Seedlings_: From Humus

Qianxun Chen & Mariana Roa Oliva

A pixelated image with a brown background and two blueish pixelated outlines of faces, one near the center and one at the top right. The words 'what would you do' in green text with a blackground are slightly below the center at the right.Self-Doubting System

Lee Tusman

On a white background, the text 'but for a man -love . a lost image , the mothers himself to realize women as boys, but.' repeat. In the foreground, black text with a yellow background reads 'i am not a friend of my sister, the only thing i could not bear to speak, i have to leave the root (urinating in a week), i would have to leave in the next night, i watched the night of the grass, i was so busy, i saw my sister, as a new word'.Someone Tell the Boyz

Arwa Mboya

A black screen is separated by gray lines, with gray dots on some lines forming three curvy lines, while there are other white dots randomly placed throughout the grid. At the edges of the screen are two orange triangular 'agents' with gray lines emerging from them, which indicate when they have detected a 'dot', which they will try to eat.Songlines

Ágoston Nagy

On a gray background a number of triangular line shapes are drawn in black, some of which are shaded dark. There are also thin red lines, one thick blue line, and a few shaded black shapes: a circle, and an incomplete curve.This Indignant Page: The Politics of the Paratextual

Karen ann Donnachie & Andy Simionato

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