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

1970

Early Computer Graphics Conferences Appear

Event · Europe

The cover of PAGE 8 (May 1970), the bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, the issue published in the weeks after the Computer Graphics 70 symposium at Brunel University, Uxbridge (14–16 April 1970).
The cover of PAGE 8 (May 1970), the bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, the issue published in the weeks after the Computer Graphics 70 symposium at Brunel University, Uxbridge (14–16 April 1970). PAGE 8, bulletin of the Computer Arts Society, May 1970. Computer Arts Society Archive.

The spring of 1970 saw two of the first conferences dedicated to computer graphics. The first, Werkgroep voor Computers en Woord, Beeld en Geluid, took place in March in Delft and Amsterdam. The second, the International symposium Computer Graphics ‘70, took place in April at BruneI University, Uxbridge, England.

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

Sources

Movements

computer art

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Technologies
computer art, computer graphics
Exhibitions
Computer Graphics '70
Organisations
Brunel University, Werkgroep voor Computers en Woord, Beeld en Geluid
Places
Amsterdam, Delft, England, Netherlands, Uxbridge

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