Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)
2010
onformative Founded

Founded by Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer, onformative is a studio that focuses on digital generative art and design. Based in Berlin, onformative is characterized by its unique blend of art, design and technology, producing expressive, algorithmic work. The studio engages in a wide array of projects, from interactive media installations to generative design and dynamic visuals, often collaborating with professionals across various disciplines. By focusing on an emotional approach to digital creativity, onformative continues to find the human in the digital. Their work explores a variety of materiality, showcasing the decade’s tech-led aesthetic from its very beginnings as well as an indication that digital generativity was alive and well prior to NFTs.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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People
Movements
generative art, graphic design, Lumino-Kinetic Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Algorithmic Art, design, digital art, generative art, generative design, graphic design, Installation Art, Interactive Art, Lumino-Kinetic Art, materiality
- Technologies
- NFTs
- People
- Cedric Kiefer, Julia Laub
- Organisations
- onformative
- Places
- Berlin
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- 1998 · Inaugural International Generative Art Conference at Politecnico di Milano University
- 1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
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- Timeline Ch 9—AI Era (2010s) with Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers & Gene Kogan — listen with transcript on Le Random (30 Jul 2024, 51 min). Chapter 9’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify