Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1968

Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds Meet in Leicester

Event · Europe

Framed documentation of Datapack with a magnetic-tape reel and diagrammed instructions.
Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds, Datapack, 1969: documentation of their early computer-managed interactive work, following their 1968 meeting. Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds. Image: Computer Arts Society; photographer not identified. Image source.

Leicester-based artists Stroud Cornock and Ernest Edmonds, working at Leicester School of Art and Leicester Technical College, recognize the potential of interactive computer-based art. The two begin working together and by 1970 the colleges merged to form Leicester Polytechnic. Leicester Polytechnic would for nearly a decade and a half become one of the most important centers of computer art in Britain and the world.

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

Sources

People

Ernest Edmonds, Stroud Cornock

Movements

computer art

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Ideas
collaboration, Interactive Art
Technologies
computer art
People
Ernest Edmonds, Stroud Cornock
Organisations
Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester School of Art, Leicester Technical College
Places
Britain, Leicester

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