Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1979

Cybernetic Symbiosis, Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science

Exhibition · Europe · Women Artists

A blue exhibition poster combines Duane Palyka’s circular computer pattern with the title Cybernetic Symbiosis and the 1979 Berkeley exhibition dates.
Poster for Cybernetic Symbiosis, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, 1 March–1 October 1979, featuring Duane Palyka’s Bubble Series. Duane Palyka, Bubble Series. Poster from the Collections of The Henry Ford, gift of the Lillian F. Schwartz & Laurens R. Schwartz Collection, object 2021.14.701, image THF705969. Image source.

Organized by artist and California State University, Chico Computer Science professor, Grace C. Hertlein, this exhibition “feature[d] a definitive display of varied international invitational computer art.”

According to the catalogue, the exhibition’s “artists represent[ed] the most important computer artists in the world today,” according to the exhibition announcement. It lasted for six months from March to August 1979.

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

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People

Grace C. Hertlein

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computer art

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Technologies
computer art
People
Grace C. Hertlein
Exhibitions
Cybernetic Symbiosis
Organisations
California State University, Chico, Lawrence Hall of Science
Places
Berkeley, California

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