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

1978

Computer Art Grows

Event

Cover of the program and exhibits booklet for SIGGRAPH 1978, a documentary image of the expanding computer graphics field in the year of this record.
Cover of the program and exhibits booklet for SIGGRAPH 1978, a documentary image of the expanding computer graphics field in the year of this record. SIGGRAPH 1978 Conference Program and Exhibits, cover. ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives

According to Grant Taylor, In When the Machine Made Art, “By 1978, there were 30 times more computer art practitioners than a decade earlier.” One decade after its humble beginnings, computer art was growing. Computers and programming increased in accessibility as well as technical training conducted at an increasing number of universities with computer art-related classes.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

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