Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1960
Kurd Alsleben and Cord Passow Make Analog Computer Drawings
Artist Kurd Alsleben in collaboration with physicist Cord Passow used an analogue computer (EAI 231 R) in Hamburg to create parametric generative art. The analog computer, combined with a mechanical drawing mechanism, produced graphical works of waves and lines based on the changing results of an equation. By adjusting the parameters of the equation, the outputs varied in visual form.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Analog Computer Art, collaboration, drawing, generative art, mathematics, science
- Technologies
- analog computing, computer art, EAI 231R, parametric systems
- People
- Cord Passow, Kurd Alsleben
- Places
- Germany, Hamburg
Echoes across time
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
- 1927 · Vannevar Bush constructs his Differential Analyser
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
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- 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