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Scott Draves has received kudos in science and art books, magazines, and on websites across the Internet.

• 2015.01 Contributor to the Edge annual question on Machines that Think and This Idea is Brilliant in 2017.
• 2014.06 Seven page profile in the book Colliding Worlds.
• 2014.02 Reviewed in the Washington Post.
• 2013.11 Covered by the BBC in The quest to turn computers into creative artists.
• 2012.12 Reviewed in the book History of Computer Art.
• 2011.09 Discussed in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
• 2012.12 Interviewed for Reality Sandwich.
• 2012.01 Pittsbugh Post-Gazette Sunday Arts Section story "Creating Art with Algorithms".
• 2011.12 Featured in El País, Life and Arts section, including two large pictures (front page on the web).
• 2011.11 Interviewed for PBS Arts documentary on Generative Art.
• 2011.09 Wall Street Journal covers my presentation at Leaders in Software and Art at Google in NYC.
• 2011.06 Featured on front page of Chicago Tribune Arts and Entertainment section.
• 2011.01 Interviewed in Triangulation Blog.
• 2010.08 Interviewed at The Creator's Project, and again in 2011.09.
• 2009.11 Scott Draves' CMU commission covered in "Carnegie Mellon exhibit blurs line between artist, tools" in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
• 2008.07 Scott Draves interviewed in Makezine.com.
• 2008.03 Electric Sheep called one of "14 Best Ways to Use your Computer's Spare Time" in Discover Magazine.
• 2008.01 Electric Sheep on cover of Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology.
• 2006.12 HiFiDreams installation into the Googleplex covered by Wired Online and ValleyWag.
• 2006.07 HiFiDreams on front page of CNet's News.Com.
• 2005.09 Electric Sheep in back-story of prime-time CBS show Threshold.
• 2005.05 Scott Draves covered in Keyboard Magazine VJ article.
• 2004.08 Discover Magazine runs one page story on Electric Sheep.
• 2004.07 The New Yorker Magazine covers Dorkbot presentation in The Talk of the Town.
• 2002.05 BPM Magazine reviews Bomb.
• 2001.05 Wired Magazine runs two-page spread of Flame #148 and Electric Sheep.

Large image on the cover of the Arts and Entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune, June 2011.

Two images and text in the Vida & Artes section of El País, December 2011.

Cover of Leonardo Journal, 2008.

Interview at Makezine.com, July 2008.

Quotes:

• "infinite unreality... expands endlessly" - Washington Post


• "Beautiful... animations that self-modify based on users' feedback, evolving into gorgeous artificial life-forms." - Boing Boing


• "the first step in bridging the gap between humans and machines." - Art in Odd Places


• "If anyone can communicate that soul, he can... The magus of software art." - Arthur I. Miller in his book Colliding Worlds


• "groundbreaking" - Reality Sandwich


• "the fascinating forms of the 'dynamic painting' Dreams in High Fidelity" - El País.


• "Fertile ground for a new digital and social knowledge commons." - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and the Life/Vida 4.0 Jury.


• "This is where the history of AI-art-as-we-know-it begins." - Le Random


• "Stunning Visual Creatures" - Singularity Hub


• "Draves is the author of the brilliant Electric Sheep. - Cory Doctorow


• "Channeling M.C. Escher and classical Celtic designs" - CNET News


• "Incandescent...mesmerizing" - Discover Magazine


• "A pioneer of generative art" - Triangulation.



• "like a passage down a rabbit hole" - The Link Magazine


• "Stunningly beautiful...amazingly mind-blowing animated imagery" - Smells Like Screen Spirit


• "Stunningly-organic looking images" - Create Digital Motion


• "I saw HiFiDreams at the GooglePlex. I barely left. It was incredible. I was astounded, I was speechless, it was breathtaking...one of the most astounding artworks I've ever seen." - Anna Raven


• "It's fantastic... stunning algorithmically generated animations" - JustAsItSounds.com


• "Incredible flame fractals take you through the wormhole" - Tech Republic


• "Breathtaking" - Future Hi


• "Expert vj and software guru Scott Draves" - Keyboard Magazine


• "I admire artists who use technology in unique ways, which is why I'm a big fan of Scott Draves." - Sentient Developments


• "In recent years revolutionary new ways of creating fractals have been pioneered by software designers and Fractal Flames, discovered by software artist Scott Draves, is one such new innovation providing stunning 'never seen before' detail of the beauty and complexity of natural (mathematical) forms. " - Commercials Unlimited


• "The coolest screensaver ever" - Webmonkey.com
• "I'm totally in love with this project" - zhxhome.net


• "Perfectly smooth. Gorgeous.... Flat-out Amazing." - BBum


• "Simplemente espectacular a la vez que hipnotizador." - lordmax.org


• "What makes this even more interesting is this Art Form becomes more refined the more people vote on the Electric Sheep." - Marshall Sponder, Smartmobs.com


• "Best. Screensaver. EVER. The extra uber cool phenonmenon that is electric sheep... you MUST try this" - The Mossy Blog

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