Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)

2022

Dear Machine, paint for me at Kate Vass Galerie

Exhibition

Horizontal bands of yellow, orange, red, pink, green and blue extend across Frieder Nake’s Hommage à Gerhard Richter.
Frieder Nake, Hommage à Gerhard Richter, 2022, still from the kinetic work presented in Dear Machine, paint for me, Zürich, 2022. Frieder Nake. Still published by Kate Vass Galerie on its exhibition page. Image source.

This October exhibition curated by Georg Bak and Kate Vass featured works by pioneers and contemporary artists alike, including Frieder Nake, Alexander Mordvintsev and Ganbrood. The exhibition showcased a broad spectrum of algorithmic art, from early generative works to modern AI-driven pieces, demonstrating the evolving role of machines in the creative process and the collaboration between artist-programmers and their digital tools since the ideas of Shannon, Bense and Moles.

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

Sources

People

Alexander Mordvintsev, Claude Shannon, Frieder Nake, Ganbrood, Georg Bak, Kate Vass

Movements

computer art, generative art, artificial intelligence

Filed under

Ideas
Algorithmic Art, collaboration, computational creativity, Machine Learning Art, tools
People
Alexander Mordvintsev, Claude Shannon, Frieder Nake, Ganbrood, Georg Bak, Kate Vass
Exhibitions
Dear Machine, paint for me
Organisations
Kate Vass Galerie, October
Places
Zurich

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