Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1969
CTG Participates in the Paris Biennale
The Japanese Computer Technique Group (CTG) showed three plotted works along with an early computer animation, Computer Movie No. 1, “produced by filming their computer-generated images on an IBM 2250 CRT.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
Movements
computer art, generative art
Filed under
- Ideas
- generative art
- Technologies
- computer animation, computer art, CRT, IBM 2250, plotter, Plotter Art
- Works
- Computer Movie No. 1
- Organisations
- Computer Technique Group, IBM, Paris Biennale
- Places
- France, Japan, Paris
Related moments
- 1969 · Computer Technique Group (CTG) Disbands
- 1967–68 · Running Cola is Africa by Computer Technique Group (CTG)
- 1969 · International Psytech Art exhibition – Electromagica ’69
- 1966 · CTG Pioneers Digital Generative Systems
Echoes across time
- 1985 · Emerging Expressions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
- 1985 · Mark Wilson, Skew J17
- 1989 · Sans lever la plume by Jean-Pierre Hébert
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- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify