Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1969
Hello by Allan Kaprow
This interactive video happening utilized the Boston-area closed-circuit TV network with Kaprow as director. It explored human-digital connections and how technology was beginning to increasingly encroach upon such interactions, anticipating many of contemporary society’s issues. This work serves as an important early example of interactive video art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Movements
conceptual art, Happenings, Participatory Art, video art
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- Ideas
- conceptual art, Happenings, Interactive Art, Participatory Art, performance, technology critique, video art
- Technologies
- closed-circuit television, Director
- People
- Allan Kaprow
- Works
- Hello
- Places
- Boston
Echoes across time
- 1985 · Shoe-Field by Sonya Rapopport
- 1988 · Computers and Art at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
- 1990 · Emerging Forms 3 by Hillary Kapan
Le Random editorials
- Operator on Human Unreadable, Peter Bauman, November 21, 2023
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