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Two elements have always been essential to this artist: the concept that artists who work with computers should know how to program and the influence of philosophical concepts on aesthetic proposals. This strong presence of philosophical concepts is responsible for what he understands as art.
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Poltronieri, F. (2018). Chance, Poetry and Computational Art: The Visual Theogonies. In: Explorations in Art and Technology. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7367-0_27
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