Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2022
Midjourney Launched
In July, Midjourney moved to an open beta, making the text to image AI generator available to the public on its V3, with V1 appearing in February 2022. The Discord-accessible image generator founded by David Holz joined DALL-E and the following month’s entrant Stable Diffusion to disrupt animation and photography with Artificial Intelligence.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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- Digital Curators Series 02—Regina Harsanyi & Jon Ippolito on Preserving the Digital — listen with transcript on Le Random (04 Nov 2024, 79 min). Transcript mentions Midjourney. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
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- Timeline Ch 10—On-Chain Era (2020s) with Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Itzel Yard & Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — listen with transcript on Le Random (02 Sep 2024, 63 min). Chapter 10’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify