I stumbled upon Robert Hodgin’s website, and then realised that he was the artist that Alex cited as one of her inspirations for her kinect project (and upon further reading found out that he was a founder of the Barbarian Group which in turn made Cinder, which I did not know). I was floored by his examples of flocking, behavioural movements, as well as the rest of this generative art. Looking at this piece, as well as other similar works brought home for me the point that I have no experience working with that, sort of, canon of generative art – partical systems, physics libraries, algorithms, etc, largely because I think they scare me. Spending some time going into these examples, and seeing what algorithms are at the core, I have begun to realize that I need to spend some time really working with them because they are so powerful and interesting