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

Like the light going off after the chronicling of the Greek historian Herodotus around the 5th c. BCE, when the ancient world lost much of its color. So we have the final entry from Copper Giloth and Lynn Pocock-Williams’s epic chronicling of their own of publication, exhibition and technology history of generative art since 1945 from which this Timeline has extensively utilized. 1990 marks the final years covered by Giloth and Pocock-Williams. Here are the final publications of note mentioned: Terry Gips, “Critical Questions for Computer Artists of the 1990's.” Renee LeWinter and Cynthia Baron, “Artistic Challenge.” Fred Ritchin, In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography. Dorothy Spencer, “Computer Art-An Oxymoron? Views from the Mainstream.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Copper Giloth, Cynthia Baron, Dorothy Spencer, Fred Ritchin, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Renee LeWinter, Terry Gips
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- generative art, photography
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Copper Giloth, Cynthia Baron, Dorothy Spencer, Fred Ritchin, Lynn Pocock-Williams, Renee LeWinter, Terry Gips
- Works
- A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology, Artistic Challenge, Computer Art—An Oxymoron? Views from the Mainstream, Critical Questions for Computer Artists of the 1990s, In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography
Echoes across time
- 1974 · Art et Informatique by Maison de la Culture d’Angers
- 1968 · Generative Photography at Bielefeld Kunsthaus
- 1978 · The Vasulka’s: Steina: Machine Vision; Woody: Description at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Le Random editorials
- Copper Giloth on Video Games to Video Art, Peter Bauman, September 22, 2025
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 Feb 2024, 85 min). Featuring Copper Giloth. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić — listen with transcript on Le Random (11 Apr 2024, 77 min). Chapter 7’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify