On the "Spatiality" of the Algorithmic Creative Process

The reflection developed so far in this chapter first focused on an elaboration with ontological overtones, presenting both the human and the machine as structured on the basis of experience and gesture. It then sought to refine the description of artistic intention, brought closer to the notion of intention-image drawn from the thought of Gilbert Simondon. This was followed by a characterization of the uncertainties inherent in the digital medium, through the proposed notions of analog virtual and algorithmic virtual, followed in turn by considerations aimed at describing the human-machine link at work in the digital creative process not as an interaction based on natural human language, but rather as an exchange that passes through gesture. It is in this context that an artistic gesture can emerge, which becomes an algorithmic gesture when it invests the algorithmic core of the creative process.

The next step will be to mobilize these notions in order to better describe the unfolding of the artistic gesture within a particular form of “spatiality” proposed for the digital creative process, following a schematization that will be applied to each of the works making up the personal work.