Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1967
Research Center Art Technology and Society Founded in Amsterdam by Robert Hartzema, Tjebbe van Tijen

This early digital art group that would last until 1969 published research reports on issues such as enhanced collaboration between artists and scientists.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Robert Hartzema, Tjebbe van Tijen
Movements
Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- art and science, collaboration, digital art, Technology and Art
- People
- Robert Hartzema, Tjebbe van Tijen
- Organisations
- Research Center Art Technology and Society
- Places
- Amsterdam
Echoes across time
- 1980 · David Topper and John H. Holloway, Interrelationships between the Visual Arts, Science and Technology: A Bibliography
- 1988 · First International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA) Held in Utrecht
- 1984 · Art and the Computer by Melvin Prueitt
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify