Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 7: Net Era (1990s)

1998

Processos criativos com os meios eletrônicos: poéticas digitais

Publication · South America

A bookseller's photograph of a copy of Processos criativos com os meios eletronicos: poeticas digitais held in the hand, showing the pixelated rainbow cover with the authors' names and the Hucitec imprint.
A bookseller's photograph of a copy of Processos criativos com os meios eletronicos: poeticas digitais held in the hand, showing the pixelated rainbow cover with the authors' names and the Hucitec imprint. Cover of Julio Plaza and Monica Tavares, Processos criativos com os meios eletronicos: poeticas digitais (Sao Paulo: Editora Hucitec, 1998). Bookseller photograph, Estante Virtual.

This book taught a generation of Brazilian creative coders in the mid-to-late ’90s. The book investigated the technical mechanisms behind electronic image creation. The book also championed the unique qualities and potential of electronic media that it argued was becoming increasingly relevant for expressing creativity in the digital age.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Julio Plaza, Mônica Tavares

Movements

Algorithmic Art, digital art, generative art

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Ideas
Algorithmic Art, creative coding, digital art, generative art, pedagogy
People
Julio Plaza, Mônica Tavares
Works
Electronic Art, Processos criativos com os meios eletrônicos: poéticas digitais
Places
Brazil

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