Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1973

P-154-C by Manfred Mohr

Artwork

Manfred Mohr's plotter drawing P-154-C1 (1973): a seven-by-ten grid of wireframe cubes, each captioned with its three rotation angles and each progressively stripped of lines until only fragments remain.
Manfred Mohr's plotter drawing P-154-C1 (1973): a seven-by-ten grid of wireframe cubes, each captioned with its three rotation angles and each progressively stripped of lines until only fragments remain. Manfred Mohr, P-154-C1, 1973, plotter drawing on paper, 60 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and bitforms gallery, New York.

Work indicative of Mohr’s early to mid-70s work exploring and deconstructing the cube.

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

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computer art

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cube, generative art, geometry
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