Ātman takes inspiration on elements of Yoga Science.
Yoga Science describes the nature of creation in which the Ātman (Self) is the creative principle behind all manifestations, these being guided by cosmic law and manifested through cosmic vibration with its by-product of cosmic sound and cosmic light. It is vibration itself that works as the substratum or the underlying layer of the cosmic field. In Yoga this substratum takes the name of AUM, the primordial vibration.
Here the artist (Ātman) takes the role of creative principle, the intelligence behind; the algorithms take the role of cosmic law, giving the piece of art its behavioral nature and determining its possible results; and then sound (audio) and light (image) become the means of expression.
Generative art refers to a work of art that was created either partially or completely by an autonomous system. Any system that is non-human and can independently determine some or all of the features of an artwork, is considered autonomous.
All Ātman art pieces are generative in nature, being created partially by an autonomous system.
The process starts by using an image input algorithm that takes the image and feeds it to a chain of sub-algorithms that further process it, altering its output or image result. The algorithms are driven by MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) signals, which transform audio information into digital values and vice versa; audio information is composed of vibratory information which can be further resolved into the three elemental information units of all wave-motion, frequency, amplitude and phase. All manifestations in the universal structure being variations of these.
It is audio information that triggers the algorithms and makes them favor specific values depending on the way that they were programed, with some algorithms behaving according to weighted probability, while others being fully random.
This makes the art piece a true audio-picture.
As long as audio information is fed to the algorithm, it will keep on generating new image results.
The number of possible results by combining algorithmic values is such, that this gives the image value by rarity or uniqueness.
The image result is then further processed by the artist giving it the human element, the human ¨stamp¨ to it.
