At the Hospital de Tivissa, Generative Dialogues IV: Time in Layers brings generative art into dialogue with a building where time has been carved into stone. Round-arched portals, pointed vaults, inscriptions, renovations, remains of a possible castle and a date —1724— coexist in the same place, like layers of a history that has never stopped rewriting itself.
The collective audiovisual installation by The Generative Art Museum works like a generative clock: every minute, a new composition appears, created from a random seed and synchronised with UTC time. In Tivissa, this computational time —precise, global, abstract— comes into friction with the slow time of the site: that of stone, bells, architectural transformations and communal uses.
With works by Agoston Nagy, Andreas Rau and Marcelo Soria Rodriguez, Anna Carreras, Manuel Lariño, Paolo Curtoni, Pawel Dudko and Udith Mahajan, Time in Layers reads the Hospital as a generative system that predates the digital: an organism made of variations, losses, repairs and new functions. Every change leaves a mark; every execution of an algorithm, an unrepeatable image.
The Generative Art Museum
The Generative Art Museum is a platform dedicated to the exploration, preservation, and dissemination of generative art. It operates at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, focusing on practices that use autonomous systems, algorithms, and computational processes as creative material.
Beyond archiving or exhibiting, TGAM understands generative art as a constantly evolving field, promoting formats that make its internal logics visible—from publications and research to gatherings, labs, and discussion platforms such as Generative Dialogues.
Works in “Generative Dialogues IV: Temps en capes”
- Gift of Time, by Manuel Lariño
- Neural Prometheus, by Paolo Curtoni
- Llaçades, by Anna Carreras
- re.flex.ion, by Pawel Dudko
- Toccata, by Andreas Rau and Marcelo Soria Rodriguez
- Nexus, by Udith Mahajan
- Timers, by Agoston Nagy