Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1962
Clark and Molnar Invent the LINC
Considered the first individual computer work station, the LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) was an important forerunner of the personal computer developed by Wes Clark and Charles Molnar at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The LINC is a key development in computer science as well as on-chain digital generative art history. LINC represented a key jump in the shrinking of computer sizes, culminating in today’s smartphone-enabled NFTs.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Charles Molnar, Wesley A. Clark
Movements
Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Technology and Art
- Technologies
- LINC, NFTs, on-chain
- People
- Charles Molnar, Wesley A. Clark
- Organisations
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Echoes across time
- 2020 · Enter the Madness
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
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- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify