Algae is a generative art by Nervous System which was founded by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, that has 2D and 3D models based on the natural growth of plants(such as algae) and their competitive growth. The outward branching of the art piece reminds me of the endless expansion of fractals. This endlessness could not be drawn by a human, which enhances the role that the computer plays in the art. While the computer has control over how the branches develop, where they branch out, and the pattern it creates in the end, the machine also has its limitations. It can only go as far the artist allows it, or as far as it can go within the restrains of its code. Does the computer know what it is doing is art? Is it just a sequence of numbers and letters to execute? Art I believe, is something that requires some human feeling or meaning behind it, and while there might be some algorithm for a computer to use in order to replicate some human aspects, in the end it is just an algorithm.