Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1978
Art and the Computer at the Worcester Art Museum and Computer Generated Art Exhibit at Old Dominion University
These events held in the United States were “some of the most important computer graphics exhibitions of the last years,” according to Herbert W. Franke in Computer Graphics, Computer Art (1985).
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Technologies
- computer art, computer graphics
- People
- Herbert W. Franke
- Works
- Art and the Computer, Computer Graphics, Computer Art
- Exhibitions
- Computer Generated Art
- Organisations
- Old Dominion University, Worcester Art Museum
- Places
- United States
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 1947 · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Established
- 1990 · Computers and the Creative Process at the University of Oregon Museum of Art
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
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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