Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1980
Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art by John Whitney
In the book, Whitney wrote of the future of art and society: “The future of Society: the way we communicate, learn and entertain ourselves lay in making pictures that move, images created by cameras and computers and displayed on a computer screen.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art, digital art
Filed under
- Ideas
- digital art, music
- Technologies
- computer animation, computer art
- People
- John Whitney
- Works
- Digital Harmony, Visual Music Orchestration
Echoes across time
- 1967 · Hummingbird by Charles Csuri
- 1953 · Jikken Kōbō’s Fifth Presentation Introduces the Autoslide Works
- 1953 · Mood Contrasts by Mary Ellen Bute
Le Random editorials
- Larry Cuba on Choreographing Form, Peter Bauman, July 1, 2024
- Colette Bangert on Growing Visually, Peter Bauman, May 7, 2024
- Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art, Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023
- Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2, Peter Bauman, July 5, 2023
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Transcript mentions John Whitney. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Transcript mentions John Whitney. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 Feb 2024, 85 min). Transcript mentions John Whitney. Chapter 6’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify