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And so Gaines’ systems were born: layers of self-generating images developed from rule-based arithmetic, “with limits so extensive that you couldn’t imagine the boundaries.”

Notably, the system is self-generating, requiring no external power source or complex measuring devices for data recognition.

"I would like to move to solar power with self-generating on site and be self-sufficient," said Carrington.

For self-enforced privacy and self-generating mystique, none beats San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood.

These include the early tape-loop experiments of such artists as Éliane Radigue, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen and especially Brian Eno, whose self-generating music techniques on his 1975 album “Discreet Music” helped define the ambient music genre.