Logo Language Developed

Designed by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, Logo was a general purpose programming language that was hugely important to the development of computer art. It’s main innovation for computer graphics was the concept of “turtle graphics,” allowing a programmer to manipulate the movement of a robotic turtle sitting on the floor. After being further developed at MIT in the 1970s, Logo would play an instrumental role in the development of generative art again in the 1980s as the language was taught in public schools, influencing a new generation of creative coders and artists, such as Casey Reas.