From Flickr – Erik Natzke: Skyy / Summertime / MLCP 1c

We recently posted an entry about the rise of Flickr as a community resource for artists and designers working with computational strategies. Well-known figures like Erik Natzke post documentation of their work, while Flickr groups like Processing.org, VVVV and Create Digital Motion gather a wide variety of people, with great diversity and high quality of work.

Nevertheless, there is still not a good general group dedicated to generative art and computational design. The tool-oriented groups are great, but naturally confine themselves to topics related to those platforms. The remaining handful of “digital art” groups typically suffer from varying quality and unclear guidelines. They are also frequently flooded with Photoshop collages and dubious fractals, meaning that the signal-to-noise ratio can be quite low.

From Flickr – Dave Bollinger: Tangle

As some readers may know, there is in fact already a Generator.x group on Flickr. It has sadly been inactive for some time, being originally intended to document Generator.x events. It seems like a no-brainer to repurpose what is essentially a dead group and turn it into an arena for work that is related to the scope of Generator.x.

If you are a Flickr user creating work using computational strategies, please join the group and contribute to the community. Add old favorites as well as new work, post exhibition announcements in the discussion area and generally make yourself at home. As long as your images are clearly related to the topics of Generator.x, it doesn’t matter what tool or material was used to produce them.

A Generator.x Flickr badge to display images from the group is in the works. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’ll post!

Update: The Flickr badge has been implemented (using the excellent phpFlickr library), and can be seen in the sidebar on the left.