Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1923
Construction in Enamel by László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy’s piece, which he described over the telephone to a local enamel factory in Weimar, would go on to influence the Japanese Jikken Kobo movement, particularly Katsuhiro Yamaguchi’s “order art.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, László Moholy-Nagy
Movements
Bauhaus, instruction art
Filed under
- Technologies
- enamel, telephone
- People
- Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, László Moholy-Nagy
- Works
- Art and Technology, Construction in Enamel
- Organisations
- Bauhaus, Jikken Kobo
- Places
- Germany, Weimar
Echoes across time
- 1991 · Keith Tyson begins working on ArtMachine
- 1970 · Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
- 2004 · {Software} Structures by Casey Reas, Jared Tarbell, Robert Hodgin and William Ngan
Le Random editorials
- Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art, Peter Bauman, May 26, 2025
- Mona Lisa to monogrid, Peter Bauman, March 6, 2024
- Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being, Anika Meier, March 2, 2026
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Transcript mentions László Moholy-Nagy. Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Transcript mentions László Moholy-Nagy. Apple Podcasts · Spotify