Some artists embrace randomness and geometric patterns. Many turn to programming as the appropriate medium to explore their ideas and create artworks. In this talk, we explore this artistic practice known as generative art or algorithmic art. We look at iconic examples of generative art and explore the current state of the art of programming abstractions and libraries that artists use.

Benoit Baudry is a Professor of Software Engineering at the Université de Montréal, in Montreal, Canada. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Rennes and was a research scientist at INRIA (France) from 2004 to 2017, and a Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) from 2017 to 2023. His research in software engineering focuses on code analysis for software testing and automatic diversification. He also founded the re|thread software art collective in 2019. Read about Benoit on his personal website https://softwarediversity.eu