Evolution

"Johannes Heldén is an author, visual artist, musician. Håkan Jonson is a programmer, publisher and artist." 

"Evolution is a database-driven procedural work that builds on text and audio works from Johannes Heldén, one of the two collaborators behind the piece. As an algorithmic piece that imitates the work of an artist, it challenges us to reconsider our conception of the artist's voice and the distinction between making and generating art. Through layering its source files, the algorithm keeps Heldén's style alive while building works the artist likely would not have imagined: its potential for mimicry is limitless, and the artists set forth in their proposition for the piece the goal of creating works that feel crafted by human hands. The piece suggests that a procedural generator can become an extension of an artist's voice, tuned by exposure to the artist's particular style and combining text and audio elements in an emergent poetics." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3