Troy INNOCENT

Dr Troy Innocent is a world builder, iconographer and reality newbie. Since 1989, he has been constructing languages and evolving artificial worlds. He has received numerous awards, including Honorary Mention, LIFE 2.0: Artificial Life, Spain (1999); Foreign Title Award, MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Japan (1998); and Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (1992). Innocent is currently Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne.

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AUTOGRAF

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AUTOGRAF, 2009, Generative Drawing Software

autograf is an asemic writing system that generates tags by recombining marks and gestures used in graffiti tagging. The languages generated by this process are both familiar and alien; its tags look like letters but remain indecipherable.

It is constantly and rapidly reinscribing itself as if being generated by a gang of autonomous mecha-graf artists. The tags consume and erase one another and those that survive reproduce with one another to create stylistic hybrids. The processes behind this interaction are modeled on an experimental ecosytem made of language—tags have energy, they live and die, replicate, and may steal or give energy to their neighbours. This ecosystem is sonified; the generated soundtrack reflects the ebb and flow of energy in the system.

This system belongs to the Ludean family of languages that explore parallels in processes of biological and linguistic evolution. These languages share similar rules of interaction and use. There are dynamics in the interactions of the coloured tags: orange beats green, green beats blue, blue beats orange. They share digital DNA that is interpreted by different rules common to signs and symbols, such as those that govern symmetry, geometry and intersection.

Authored: Troy Innocent

Troy INNOCENT – autograf

Troy Innocent现在墨尔本莫纳什大学建筑系就任高级讲师一职。1991年，Innocent获得斯威本大学平面设计的艺术研究生学位，接下来的一年他又获得动画和互动多媒体的研究生学位。在90年代初期，他与别人协作完成了许多装置和视频作品（如Cyberdada）。

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作品名:

AUTOGRAF, 2009, Generative Drawing Software

Autograf是一个动态生成的文字系统。它由涂鸦标签一般闪闪发光的霓虹灯组成。它们代表着来自于许多标志的重组手势，制造出一些或熟悉或陌生的图像，而这些图像又都是含义不明的。它如同一个快速复制自己的，不断变换的世界。这些标志快速吞噬消除着彼此，并一种最适合且最成功的方式存活下来——生成精巧并充满未来感的杂交品种。