Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)
1992
JPEG Standard Created
Similar to the MPEG standard released the same year, the JPEG 1 standard (ISO/IEC 10918) was developed in 1992 as part of an effort to reduce the standard image file size, a process that began in 1986. Though this standard is sometimes referred to as a single specification, it is really made up of four independent components and a combination of coding modes. It’s still in use to this day after a 1994 update.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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- digital art, digitization
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- file formats, image compression, JPEG, MPEG-1
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Echoes across time
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 1963 · ASCII Adopted as Standard
- 1970 · Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid
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