Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts by George Stiny and James Gips

Suggesting an algorithmic approach to aesthetics and criticism, George Stiny and James Gips continue the tradition of Max Bense and François Morellet. They write: “What we do attempt in this study is to suggest, in very broad strokes, what an algorithm for criticizing or designing works of art might look like. In the process, we attempt to show how various approaches to art might be modeled using this structure and we investigate some traditional issues in aesthetics in terms of this structure.”