Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1884
Founding of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
The organization would go on to become the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1963. The IEEE would be foundational in its cultivation of an international network of early digital artists, according to Darko Fritz.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Paul, Christiane. A Companion to Digital Art. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2019.
People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- digital art, early computer art, networks
- Technologies
- computer art, electrical engineering
- People
- Darko Fritz
- Organisations
- American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Places
- United States
Echoes across time
- 1965 · The World’s First Computer Art Exhibition: Georg Nees: Computergrafik, Studiengalerie der TH Stuttgart
- 1965 · Portrait of the Machine As a Young Artist by John R. Pierce in Playboy One of the Earliest Computer Art Essays
- 1965 · 13/9/65 Nr. 2 (Hommage à Paul Klee) by Frieder Nake
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify