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

1970

Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid

Exhibition · Europe · Women Artists

Manuel Barbadillo's Composición Modular of 1965; Barbadillo's modular painting system was the proposal that opened the Centro de Cálculo's Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas seminar, and he was among the local artists in the 1970 exhibition.
Manuel Barbadillo's Composición Modular of 1965; Barbadillo's modular painting system was the proposal that opened the Centro de Cálculo's Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas seminar, and he was among the local artists in the 1970 exhibition. Manuel Barbadillo, Composición Modular, 1965. Image: compArt database of digital art (dada), University of Bremen.

This computer art exhibition, curated by Ernesto García Camarero featured the contributions of early pioneers of the movement including E. Robert Ashworth, Auro Lecci, Leslie Mezei, Petar Milojević, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll, Zoran Radovic, and Rogers P. Saunders. It also included local artsits such as Manuel Barbadillo, Soledad Sevilla and José Luis Alexanco.

Listen to Peter Bauman’s interview with A. Michael Noll (transcript).

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

Sources

People

A. Michael Noll, Auro Lecci, E. Robert Ashworth, Ernesto García Camarero, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, José Luis Alexanco, Manuel Barbadillo, Petar Milojević, Rogers P. Saunders, Soledad Sevilla, Zoran Radovic

Movements

computer art, generative art

Filed under

Ideas
generative art
Technologies
computer art
People
A. Michael Noll, Auro Lecci, E. Robert Ashworth, Ernesto García Camarero, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, José Luis Alexanco, Manuel Barbadillo, Petar Milojević, Rogers P. Saunders, Soledad Sevilla, Zoran Radovic
Exhibitions
Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas
Organisations
Centro de Cálculo, University of Madrid
Places
Madrid, Spain
Other subjects
Mezei

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