Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)
1990
Emerging Forms 3 by Hillary Kapan
Mentioned in Frank Popper’s Art of the Electronic Age and shown at the Artifices exhibition, and dated 1989 by the SIGGRAPH archive, this interactive animated work was produced from “a program generating changing forms from a scattered field of pixels,” according to Popper [89].
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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computer animation
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- Ideas
- Interactive Art
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- computer animation
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- Frank Popper, Hillary Kapan
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- Art of the Electronic Age, Emerging Forms 3
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- Artifices
- Organisations
- SIGGRAPH
- Places
- Saint-Denis
Echoes across time
- 1967 · Hummingbird by Charles Csuri
- 1968 · Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds Meet in Leicester
- 1970 · Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid
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- Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić — listen with transcript on Le Random (11 Apr 2024, 77 min). Chapter 7’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify