Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)
1953
Plans mobiles by Pol Bury
Plans mobiles (Mobile Planes), made from 1953 to 1955, perfectly illustrates a “new energy from the possibility of movement” in art. These reliefs of flat metal and painted wood mounted on pivots, turned by hand, serve as an important step in the development of interactive art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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- audience participation, Interactive Art, movement
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- kinetic art, kinetic sculpture, relief sculpture
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- Pol Bury
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- Plans mobiles
Echoes across time
- 1970 · The Senster by Edward Ihnatowicz
- 1971 · Tsai Wen-Ying, Umbrella
- 2019 · CODED FIELD by Rhizomatiks
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- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Chapter 3’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify