Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1987

Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.

Exhibition · North America · Women Artists

The front cover of Digital Visions: Computers and Art, Cynthia Goodman's catalogue for the touring exhibition that opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, showing computer-rendered magenta fish swimming above a field of integrated-circuit chips.
The front cover of Digital Visions: Computers and Art, Cynthia Goodman's catalogue for the touring exhibition that opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, showing computer-rendered magenta fish swimming above a field of integrated-circuit chips. Cover of Cynthia Goodman, Digital Visions: Computers and Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Everson Museum of Art, 1987). Internet Archive.

Organized by Cynthia Goodman, this group exhibition was shown across the east coast of the United States. Billed as “the first major museum group show on computer art in the U.S.,” the exhibit showcased works from artists including Manfred Mohr, Lillian Schwartz and Mark Wilson.

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

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People

Cynthia Goodman, Lillian Schwartz, Manfred Mohr, Mark Wilson

Movements

computer art

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Technologies
computer art
People
Cynthia Goodman, Lillian Schwartz, Manfred Mohr, Mark Wilson
Works
Computers and Art
Organisations
Everson Museum of Art
Places
Syracuse, United States

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