Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1971
Jasia Reichardt’s Publishes The Computer in Art
Reichardt’s follow up text to her landmark Cybernetic Serendipity show and catalog demonstrated her belief that computer art was a continuation of modernism’s transition to abstraction.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- abstraction, Modernism
- Technologies
- computer art, cybernetics
- People
- Jasia Reichardt
- Works
- The Computer in Art
- Exhibitions
- Cybernetic Serendipity
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Echoes across time
- 1907 · Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood by Hilma af Klint
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 1930 · Composition with Red Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
Le Random editorials
- London Digital Art Guide, Le Random & guests, October 13, 2025
- The Ultraintelligent Machine and Gaberbocchus Common Room, Jasia Reichardt, September 15, 2025
- A. Michael Noll on When It All Started, A. Michael Noll, March 25, 2025
- THEN AND NOW, Jasia Reichardt, June 25, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Elevating the Generative Art Space (Launch Episode) with Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter, Anika Meier & Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (28 Jun 2023, 52 min). Transcript mentions Jasia Reichardt. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Transcript mentions Jasia Reichardt. 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). Transcript mentions Jasia Reichardt. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Chapter 5’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify