Hi @dredreams - I found your post via Listnerds.

Good luck with your goal of becoming a "non-starving artist"!

I had to google "generative art" to check out what it was... It didn't take much scrolling on the Wikipedia page to come across references to more familiar names to me, Brian Eno and Philip Glass.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art

There's a stimulating set of questions at the bottom of that page. Here's one for you:

1. What can we learn about art from generative art?