Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1981
Computer Culture 81, Ontario College of Art
Organized by CIRCA (Centre International de Recherche, de Création et d’Animation) which aimed to “better understand the impacts and cultural implications of computers and to create a center for the production of new methods of artistic creation.” The event consisted of speakers, workshops and an art fair. It would operate yearly until at least 1983.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Jeannotte, M. Sharon. Technology in Culture and the Arts: A Policy Information Paper, 7. Ottawa: Department of Communications, 1986.
Movements
computer animation, computer art
Filed under
- Technologies
- computer animation, computer art
- Exhibitions
- Computer Culture 81, Computer/Culture 83
- Organisations
- Ontario College of Art
- Places
- Toronto
Echoes across time
- 1967 · Hummingbird by Charles Csuri
- 1964 · Leslie Mezei Gives the First Lecture on Computer Art
- 1968 · Lillian Schwartz Begins Her Computer Art Career