INTRODUCTION Until the beginning of the 1990s, information systems (IS) were generally viewed as largely a support for business activity and were justified using cost accounting techniques. A proposed system would be developed if it could be shown that it would reduce operating costs or result in other productivity increases. No consideration was given to other benefits of an intangible or even...

This paper is an artist statement describing a manipulation of the Mandelbrot Set equation as the basis for creating semi-figurative images, using a genetic algorithm. Modernist painting is referenced in terms of the play between representation and abstraction. The Platonic implications of the Mandelbrot Set are considered as a point of departure for manipulation of the complex function.

Technology, not as a collection of devices, but as a disinterested, scientifically based process of management system, provided a framework for "thinking about" the identification and solution to a predefined problem. Behind the mask of neutrality, disinterest, and a modernist notion of "truth," an ideology of control and a consciousness of process earmarked the development of western thinking ...

The state of permanent crisis has become almost a norm for contemporary humanity. However, one cannot deny that modernist tendencies in art, literature and culture general, is the most comfortable state: it raises stakes innovation, allows radicalism, demands strong methods personalities. trend, alas, not limited to modernism as period. Architecture, prone expressive ‘beautiful gestures’ aimed ...