Whether you like it or not, people are increasingly seeing art that was generated by computers. Everyone has an opinion about it, but researchers at the University of Vienna recently ran a small study ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) commissioned the artist Lillian Schwartz to create a public service announcement to advertise the opening of its newly renovated galleries. Her 30-second video ...
Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still new to California, I had heard about an artist working with computer programming to make experimental drawings ...
Should we look at digital, computer-generated artwork in the same way we evaluate performative happenings? Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies?
Edward Kienholz’s sculpture “The Friendly Grey Computer — Star Gauge Model #54” serves as both the beginning and end of the LACMA exhibit “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982.” (Sarah ...
Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...
Buck Studio spoke at the SVA Theatre on Nov 19th to share content that they produce and opportunities for working with them. Buck is a collective of designers, artists and storytellers collaborating ...
In the early 1960s, Lee Mullican, the San Franciscan artist best known for his modernist abstractions, swapped his paintbrush for the printer’s ink knife. Using its thin edge, he would apply paint to ...
Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...
Unexpected double lives, mysterious alternate realms, impending environmental doom, tech addiction, the complexities of parent-child relationships, gender fluidity, racial justice—these are just a few ...
This drawing was made in 1968 by a computer called CalComp, and was shown at an exhibition devoted to computer “plotter art.” Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image ...