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[Nettime-bold] [pr] Signwave Auto-Illustrator reaches beta at 35,000 feet |
SIGNWAVE AUTO-ILLUSTRATOR REACHES BETA AT 35,000 FEET Wednesday 28th February 2001. London, England. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicola Wright, Product Manager (nicola@auto-illustrator.com) Signwave UK +44 (0) 20 7790 0991 Signwave releases the first beta of its generative vector graphic design package, Auto-Illustrator, weeks after it co-wins the Transmediale.01 Artistic Software Award. Auto-Illustrator is much like any other graphic design package, with one crucial difference: this one has attitude. Its generative routines work in collaboration with the designer to help them realise exciting and abstract new artwork for use in web, print and video production. The jury at Transmediale values Auto-Illustrator "as a statement from where software art departs - software as 'tools' - and where it goes, namely towards an artist who becomes a programmer... whose work is algorithmic and generative". The artist behind the software, Adrian Ward, treats the software as an extension of his own creative aspirations. "Users who get to know the software learn of its quirks and behaviours - which are never really consistent - and start to articulate those in their own designs. In a sense, the finished design comes out as a bizarre collaboration between them and us". Although still in development, the software can be downloaded from its web site (http://www.auto-illustrator.com/) for free. It is available for Macintosh and Windows computers. The final version is expected to be released as a commercial product when it is completed. Signwave is a small London based company specialising in generative software for a wide range of uses. For more information on the software, visit http://www.auto-illustrator.com/ or visit http://www.signwave.co.uk/ for details on Signwave. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold