Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1968
"On the Path to Computer Art” by the Parallel Group
The parallel group held the exhibition On the Path to Computer Art in conjunction with a joint conference of MIT and the Technical University, Berlin in the summer of 1968. The show exhibited the latest computer art of the day as well as “examples of their forerunners: mathematically and mechanically produced graphics.” According to Herbert Franke, “it was later shown in more than 150 towns and cities all over the world, also under the aegis of the Goethe-Institut.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Franke, CGCA p. 105
People
Movements
computer art, generative art
Filed under
- Ideas
- generative art
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Herbert W. Franke
- Exhibitions
- On the Path to Computer Art
- Organisations
- Goethe-Institut, MIT, Parallel Group, TU Berlin
- Places
- Berlin
Echoes across time
- 1988 · Computers and Art at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
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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