Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1983
Computer/Culture 83 at La Chartreuse de Villeneuve in Avignon, France

Computer/Culture 83 was organized by C.I.R.C.A (Centre International de Recherche, de Création et d’Animation) at La Chartreuse de Villeneuve in Avignon, France. According to the catalog, the exhibition was “composed of a multiplicity of events both complementary and dissimilar which allow the public to discover these new technologies from [their] own point of interest.” More than just an exhibition, the event featured conferences, a software festival, demos and workshops. In fact, it was even more than just a single exhibition, as the event showed the works from SIGGRAPH ‘83, Photo/Electric Art Show and Exposition: “Ceci N’est Pas un….”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
Movements
computer animation, computer art
Filed under
- Technologies
- computer animation, computer art, computer graphics
- Exhibitions
- Ceci N'est Pas un..., Computer/Culture 83, Photo/Electric Art Show, SIGGRAPH 1983 Exhibition of Computer Art
- Organisations
- La Chartreuse de Villeneuve, SIGGRAPH
- Places
- Avignon, France
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