Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1983
Major Publications of 1983

1983 featured a wealth of important articles and publications related to art and technology, as highlighted by Copper Giloth and Lynn Pocock-Williams, including:
1. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
2. Hal Foster, ed: “The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture”
3. Lucinda Furlong: “Notes toward a History of Image-Processed Video”
4. Myron Krueger: Artificial Reality
5. Robert Scott Root-Bernstein: “On Paradigms and Revolutions in Science and Art: The Challenge of Interpretation,” Art Journal (1984).
6. Gene Youngblood: “Computer Art as a Way of Life.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Copper Giloth, Gene Youngblood, Hal Foster, Jean Baudrillard, Lucinda Furlong, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Myron Krueger, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Postmodernism, simulation, Technology and Art, video art
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Copper Giloth, Gene Youngblood, Hal Foster, Jean Baudrillard, Lucinda Furlong, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Myron Krueger, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
- Works
- Art and Technology, Artificial Reality, Computer Art as a Way of Life, Notes toward a History of Image-Processed Video, Simulations, The Anti-Aesthetic
- Organisations
- Art Journal, bitforms
Echoes across time
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
- 2004 · Margot Lovejoy Publishes Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age
- 1968 · Notable computer artworks
Le Random editorials
- Copper Giloth on Video Games to Video Art, Peter Bauman, September 22, 2025
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 Feb 2024, 85 min). Featuring Copper Giloth. Chapter 6’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify