Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1989

Important Publications of 1989

Publication · Women Artists

The front cover of The Society of Text, the first title in the Timeline's list of important 1989 publications, its jacket printed with overlapping blocks of body text in black on chartreuse.
The front cover of The Society of Text, the first title in the Timeline's list of important 1989 publications, its jacket printed with overlapping blocks of body text in black on chartreuse. Cover of Edward Barrett, ed., The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989). Internet Archive.

Copper Giloth and Lynn Pocock-Williams miraculously tracked the major publications for the decade and they are listed here:

1. Edward Barrett, The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information. 2. Andrew S. Glassner, 3D Computer Graphics: A User’s Guide for Artists and Designers. 3. John Lansdown and Rae A. Earshaw, eds., Computers in Art, Design, and Animation. 5. Martha Rosler, “Image Simulations, Computer Manipulations: Some Considerations.” 6. Leonardo begins publication of F.A.S.T. Electronic Bulletin Board.

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

Sources

People

Andrew S. Glassner, Copper Giloth, Edward Barrett, John Lansdown, Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Martha Rosler, Rae A. Earnshaw

Movements

computer art

Filed under

Ideas
archiving, computer art history
Technologies
3D Graphics, computer art, computer graphics, hypermedia, hypertext
People
Andrew S. Glassner, Copper Giloth, Edward Barrett, John Lansdown, Leonardo da Vinci, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Martha Rosler, Rae A. Earnshaw
Works
3D Computer Graphics: A User's Guide for Artists and Designers, Computers in Art, Design, and Animation, Image Simulations, Computer Manipulations: Some Considerations
Exhibitions
Information
Organisations
bitforms, F.A.S.T. Electronic Bulletin Board

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