Color Plates

Color Plate A

No. 1.

Aleksandr Drevin, Spusk na parashiute (Parachute Jump), oil on canvas, 89 × 107 cm, 1932. (Reproduced by permission.) The Parachute Jump shows the facility with which the artist combined a residue of Neo-Primitivism with experimental treatment of figures in a landscape with contemporary subject matter. (See Historical Perspective article by Kirill Sokolov.)

No. 2.

Athena Tacha, Marianthe, open brickwork, cedar benches, planter and underground light on concrete platform, ca. 9 × 45 × 55 ft, 1985-1986. (© Athena Tacha. Photo: Claudia O'Brien-Floethe.) University of South Florida/Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL. This work, commissioned with the "Art in State Buildings" program, was destroyed in 2000.

Color Plate B

No. 1.

Celestino Soddu, a series of generated women's portraits based on the interpretation of Picasso's style and on a possible parallel evolution of this style using artificial life. (© Celestino Soddu)

No. 2.

Gary Greenfield, computer-generated coevolved image, 2000. (© Gary Greenfield) This false-colored digital image that was co-evolved as a host (expression) with three parasites (digital filters) was bred at generation 999 during a run of the author's coevolution-ary simulation and culled as the most aesthetically fit image at generation 1,000.