It's the equivalent of a buried treasure chest of computer generated art: a repository of 100 stunning generative artworks built with Processing, assembled by Matt Pearson.
The team then started creating its own concept sketches, paintings and computer generated art.
But the game of chess itself is not art nor does it generate art – it is just a game.
It's his own angels and demons in play, his own experience of the hurtling, dangerous forces that generate art.
Life is struggle, without conflict organisms die, and one of the greatest virtues of the city is its capacity to tolerate the cultural tensions that generate art.
The cultural and political upheavals during the period covered in "Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945," currently at the Guggenheim, generated art that was unsettled and unsettling.
"What really distinguishes Deep Dream is the machine learning techniques used to generate the images, rather than the images themselves," says Dylan Kerr, a New York-based writer and curator with a strong interest in computer generated art.
Artists have been approaching this subject for a while now, for example Matthew Plummer-Fernandez's project, Novice Art Blogger, which uses deep-learning algorithms to generate art criticism in a straight-up, humorous way.
Although generating art assets for a vast multicultural community may have proved prohibitively time consuming, there are ways Syndicate could have used its intricate architecture to hint at diversity.
Those who generate art, animation and even new typefaces from algorithms would not necessarily have been considered graphic designers in the analog environment, but they are becoming a new breed of designer/engineer in the digital era.
