Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)

2018

Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers at the V&A

Exhibition · Europe

Frieder Nake's plotter drawing Quadrate werden rot (1966) from the V&A's computer art collection, the collection Chance and Control was drawn from; this is a work, not a view of the exhibition.
Frieder Nake's plotter drawing Quadrate werden rot (1966) from the V&A's computer art collection, the collection Chance and Control was drawn from; this is a work, not a view of the exhibition. Frieder Nake, Quadrate werden rot, 1966. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.262-2014). Purchased with Art Fund support.

Another indication that institutional interest renewed during the first crypto market bull run, perhaps already with the hope that cryptocurrency interest could drive interest in digital art. This is demonstrated by this show at the V&A, Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers, as well as Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 at The Whitney.

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

Sources

Movements

computer art, generative art, Plotter Art

Filed under

Ideas
chance, Chance Art, control, institutional recognition, institutions, market
Technologies
cryptocurrency
Exhibitions
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers, Programmed
Organisations
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Whitney Museum of American Art

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