Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1985
SIGGRAPH 85
The end of the early years of SIGGRAPH, the ‘85 show was once again led by women. According to this history:
“In 1985, in San Francisco, Louise (Etra) Ledeen chaired the SIGGRAPH Art Show. Rachel E. Carpenter was the Art Show Administrator and Joanne Culver once again was the Traveling Arts Show Chair. The art show jury consisted of: Kathy Rae Huffman; Robin King; Margot Lovejoy; Beau Takahara and Woody Vasulka.”
The Traveling Art Show in 1985 would make it to Tokyo with Hakuhodo, Inc. Loren Carpenter received the ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Beau Takahara, Joanne Culver, Kathy Rae Huffman, Loren Carpenter, Louise Ledeen, Margot Lovejoy, Rachel E. Carpenter, Robin King, Woody Vasulka
Movements
computer animation, computer art, generative art
Filed under
- Ideas
- generative art
- Technologies
- computer animation, computer art, computer graphics, fractals
- People
- Beau Takahara, Joanne Culver, Kathy Rae Huffman, Loren Carpenter, Louise Ledeen, Margot Lovejoy, Rachel E. Carpenter, Robin King, Woody Vasulka
- Exhibitions
- SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show
- Organisations
- ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, Hakuhodo, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Art Show
- Places
- San Francisco, Tokyo
- Other subjects
- Vasulka
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 1967 · Hummingbird by Charles Csuri
- 1964 · Leslie Mezei Gives the First Lecture on Computer Art
- 1968 · Aristid Lindenmayer Introduces the World to L-Systems