Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2023
Noteworthy AI Work

With the number of new entrants, like minting platforms and artists, sifting through the sheer load of work from 2023 was not easy either. Work we think of highly today may change and significant work will surely be missing. As it’s so recent, along with the coded work, this moment is very much a work in progress and will be in flux. Yet here are standouts: I’M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44 by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst A.I.C.C.A by Mario Klingemann (The artist’s robotic dog art critic that defecates a critical response to an artwork as a receipt) at Onkaos Gallery Perception Engines by Tom White (Originally from 2018) self-contained 003 by Entangled Others Succulentness by Ganbrood Dominoes in Fluxus Chains by Ivona Tau Waves 2.0 by Memo Akten You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS by Trevor Paglen The Black Tulip by Anna Ridler
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Anna Ridler, Ganbrood, Holly Herndon, Ivona Tau, Mario Klingemann, Mat Dryhurst, Memo Akten, Tom White, Trevor Paglen
Movements
artificial intelligence, Machine Learning Art, generative AI
Filed under
- Ideas
- ai art, art criticism
- Technologies
- robotics
- People
- Anna Ridler, Ganbrood, Holly Herndon, Ivona Tau, Mario Klingemann, Mat Dryhurst, Memo Akten, Tom White, Trevor Paglen
- Works
- A.I.C.C.A, Dominoes in Fluxus Chains, I'M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44, Perception Engines, self-contained 003, Succulentness, The Black Tulip, Waves 2.0, You've Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS
- Exhibitions
- Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
- Organisations
- Entangled Others, Fluxus, Onkaos
Echoes across time
- 1983 · Portrait of the Artist As a Young Computer by Grace Glueck
- 1972 · Robert E. Mueller Pans Computer Art
- 1979 · Cybernetic Symbiosis, Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science
Le Random editorials
- Mario Klingemann & A.I.C.C.A. on Alien Perspective, Peter Bauman, March 10, 2025
- Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst on Artificial Psychedelia, Peter Bauman, November 24, 2025
- Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms, Peter Bauman, July 13, 2026
- Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View, Peter Bauman, October 7, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Tom White & Gene Kogan on the Birth of GAN Art (Deep Learning Series 01) — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Apr 2025, 44 min). Featuring Tom White. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Anna Ridler & Sofia Crespo—The Natural History of Machine Learning with Peter Bauman (Deep Learning Series 03) — listen with transcript on Le Random (28 Nov 2025, 54 min). Featuring Anna Ridler. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Strange Rules and Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale—Trevor Paglen & Primavera De Filippi with Peter Bauman — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 May 2026, 47 min). Featuring Trevor Paglen. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- 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