Visual Theogonies: Chance, control, and automation in algorithmic art

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This short article explores relations between chance and control in the field of algorithmic art, using as a case study the series of artworks Visual Theogonies (2014), which arose out of a playful game with the poem ‘Theogony: The Origin of the Gods’, by the Greek poet Hesiod