Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1978

Arts et Informatique organized by the Swedish Cultural Centre in Paris

Exhibition · Europe

Yellow and blue Swedish Cultural Centre programme for September–October 1979, listing L’artiste et l’ordinateur on 21 September and its participating artists.
Programme for L’artiste et l’ordinateur, Centre culturel suédois, Paris, 21 September–28 October 1979—the later exhibition in the sequence described here. Source: ArtInfo–MusInfo, Groupe Art et Informatique de Vincennes archive. Rights remain with the respective authors; archive labels this scan CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Part two of three successive exhibitions by the Swedish Cultural Center that accompanied seminars in Paris between 1977 and 1979. The exhibitions were: L’ordinateur et les arts visuels (1977), Arts et Informatique (1978), and Artiste et Ordinateur (1979). They showcased Swedish artists in particular, including according to Herbert W. Franke, Holger Bäckström, Bo Ljungberg, Sven Höglund, Bror Wikström and Torsten Ridell.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Bo Ljungberg, Bror Wikström, Herbert W. Franke, Holger Bäckström, Sven Höglund, Torsten Ridell

Movements

computer art

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Technologies
computer art
People
Bo Ljungberg, Bror Wikström, Herbert W. Franke, Holger Bäckström, Sven Höglund, Torsten Ridell
Works
L'ordinateur et les arts visuels
Exhibitions
Artiste et Ordinateur, Arts et Informatique
Organisations
Swedish Cultural Centre
Places
France, Paris, Sweden

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