Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1978
Art of the Space Era – Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama

Held at the Huntsville Museum of Art in the United States, this two part exhibition curated by Thomas A. Bowles & Carolyn Wood featured work by Vera Molnár (variations), Ben Laposky, Kenneth Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz and Edward Zajec.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Ben Laposky, Carolyn Wood, Edward Zajec, Ken Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz, Thomas A. Bowles, Vera Molnár
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Ben Laposky, Carolyn Wood, Edward Zajec, Ken Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz, Thomas A. Bowles, Vera Molnár
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Space Era
- Organisations
- Huntsville Museum of Art
- Places
- Alabama, Huntsville, United States
- Other subjects
- Laposky
Echoes across time
- 1990 · Computers and the Creative Process at the University of Oregon Museum of Art
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 2022 · Phillips Holds Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Chapter 5’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify