Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1979
Douglas Hofstadter’s Publishes Book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
This book exploring the latest trends in math, logic and computer language, would greatly influence artist Roman Verostko.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, M.C. Escher, Roman Verostko
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- mathematics
- Technologies
- computer art, programming, symbolic logic
- People
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, M.C. Escher, Roman Verostko
- Works
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Other subjects
- Bach, Hofstadter
Echoes across time
- 1843 · Ada Lovelace Publishes the First Algorithm Written for a Machine
- 1943 · Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts publish A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
- 1948 · The Mathematical Basis of the Arts by Joseph Schillinger
Le Random editorials
- Larva Labs on Computation’s Strangeness, Peter Bauman, October 6, 2025
Le Random podcast
- 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). Chapter 5’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify