Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)

2018

Meandering River by onformative

Artwork · North America

Meandering River by onformative
Courtesy of onformative.

This AI audiovisual installation explores the transformative forces of nature through real-time algorithmic visuals and AI-composed music. Offering a bird’s-eye view of a dynamic landscape, the project visualizes the shifting behaviors of rivers and their impact on the earth. Utilizing bespoke algorithms and shaders, the installation simulates natural phenomena such as hydraulic erosion and meander scars. The accompanying soundscape, developed with composers kling klang klong using the Google Magenta Performance RNN model, dynamically responds to the river’s simulated movements, creating an immersive experience that underscores the unpredictability and beauty of natural generativity.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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Movements

generative art, artificial intelligence, Immersive Art, Audiovisual Performance, Real-Time Art

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Ideas
Generative Music, immersion, Installation Art, landscape, nature, performance, simulation
Technologies
algorithms, artificial intelligence, hydraulic erosion, machine learning, Magenta, Performance RNN, real-time rendering, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), shaders
Works
Meandering River
Organisations
Google, kling klang klong, onformative

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