Generative design

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Authorship when a rule made the artwork

Lesson 10 of 10 in Generative design.

Sol Lewitt | TateShots · Tate
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Delegated execution is old and uncontroversial in art. Sol LeWitt's wall drawings were made by other people from his instructions and nobody disputed whose work they were. Renaissance workshops painted the drapery. A bronze is cast by a foundry.

A sculptor passes a small clay model to two foundry workers pouring molten bronze into a mould. On a bench nearby lies an open notebook full of the sculptor's sketches and crossed-out options.
Others pour the bronze. The notebook of decisions is what shows whose work it is.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Whose decisions produced the work. Not the same as whose hands moved.”

    • Rule
    • Constraint
    • Authorship
    • Invariant
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Carrying out the instruction. Historically delegated without controversy.”

    • Container
    • Variable font
    • Interpolation
    • Execution
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The requirement in several copyright systems. Currently the live legal question.”

    • System without a subject
    • Human authorship
    • Execution
    • Generative design
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