Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)
1992
Leicester Polytechnic officially Becomes De Montfort University
As Leicester Polytechnic evolved into De Montfort University, its legacy as the epicenter for British (if not the world) computer art in the ’70s and ’80s remains. With luminaries such as Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Scrivener and Dominic Boreham at HCIRU leaving an indelible mark.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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People
Dominic Boreham, Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Scrivener
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Dominic Boreham, Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Scrivener
- Organisations
- De Montfort University, Human Computer Interface Research Unit (HCIRU), Leicester Polytechnic
- Places
- Britain, Leicester
Related moments
- 1969 · Leicester Polytechnic Is Formed
- 1968 · Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds Meet in Leicester
- 1986 · Ernest Edmonds Establishes LUTCHI Research Centre
- 1982 · Ernest Edmonds Founds HCIRU Research Group
Echoes across time
- 1969 · Leicester Polytechnic Is Formed
- 1964 · US Army’s BRL Wins Computer Art Content Top Prize for Second Straight Year
- 1968 · Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds Meet in Leicester
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