Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1969
Event One by Computer Arts Society
The first exhibition of the newly formed Computer Arts Society, Event One took place at the Royal College of Art. It impacted the development of the “creative use of computers in the arts,” particularly in the UK. The exhibition featured works of architecture, dance, film, graphics, music, poetry and theater.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
Movements
Chance Dance, computer art, Generative Architecture, Generative Music, Generative Poetry, video art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Chance Dance, Computer Film, Generative Architecture, Generative Music, Generative Poetry, video art
- Technologies
- computer art, computer graphics
- Exhibitions
- Event One
- Organisations
- Computer Arts Society, Royal College of Art
- Places
- London, UK
Related moments
- 1968 · Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds Meet in Leicester
- 1968 · Foundation of the Computer Arts Society
Echoes across time
- 1988 · Computers and Art at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
- 1982 · Artists/Computers/Art at the Canada House Gallery, London
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify