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

1979

Frank J Malina Publishes Visual Art, Mathematics, and Computers

Publication

Black-and-white publisher advertisement with bold title, abstract stepped forms and the book’s 1979 publication information.
Pergamon Press’s 1979 advertisement for Visual Art, Mathematics & Computers, edited by Frank J. Malina, in Icographic 14/15. Pergamon Press; Icographic 14/15, 1979, p. 56. Original publication scan: International Council of Design (ICoD); advertisement designer not identified. Image source.

This book contained Malina’s papers he published in the journal Leonardo. Herbert W. Franke called Malina a “patron of art technology” in 1985, four years after Malina’s death in 1981.

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

Sources

People

Frank Malina, Herbert W. Franke, Leonardo da Vinci

Movements

computer art

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Ideas
mathematics, Technology and Art
Technologies
computer art
People
Frank Malina, Herbert W. Franke, Leonardo da Vinci
Works
Visual Art, Mathematics and Computers

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