Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1968

Computer Graphic Exhibition at Brno House of Arts

Exhibition · Eastern Europe

Two black-and-white catalogue covers, with an angular line drawing on the left and reproduction credits on the right.
Front and back covers of the original Computer Graphic exhibition catalogue, Brno, 1968, reproduced in the curators’ 2019 reconstruction study. Dům umění města Brna, 1968; catalogue graphic design: Milada Nováková. Reproduction: Jana Horáková and Jiří Mucha, Proceedings of the IEEE 107(3), March 2019, fig. 3, p. 622. Image source.

Curated by Jiří Valoch, this was the first exhibition of computer art in Easter Europe.

The exhibition featured works from pioneers A. Michael Noll, Charles Csuri, Leslie Mezei, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and local Czech artist, Lubomír Sochor.

Listen to Peter Bauman’s interview with A. Michael Noll (transcript).

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

Sources

People

A. Michael Noll, Charles Csuri, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Jiří Valoch, Lubomír Sochor

Movements

computer art, generative art

Filed under

Ideas
generative art
Technologies
computer art
People
A. Michael Noll, Charles Csuri, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Jiří Valoch, Lubomír Sochor
Exhibitions
Computer Graphic
Organisations
Brno House of Arts
Places
Brno, Czechia, Eastern Europe, Europe
Other subjects
Mezei

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