Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1986

Suzete Venturelli Founds the Computational Art Research Laboratory, MediaLab/UnB

Invention · South America

Five people gather in a white gallery during installation, with a ladder and equipment beside them.
MediaLab/UnB participants preparing an installation, in the photograph published with the laboratory’s 2016 institutional history. The photograph’s exact date is not specified. MediaLab / Universidade Federal de Goiás, institutional history of MediaLab/UnB. Photographer not identified. Image source.

Professor Venturelli founded the computational art research laboratory at the MediaLab/UnB to bring together a diverse community of students and researchers passionate about the intersection of art and technology. This visionary institution continues to cultivate inventive projects spanning animation, computational art, AR, HCI and more. MediaLab/UnB fosters a dynamic synergy between art and technology while addressing the socio-artistic and political issues of contemporary society.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Suzete Venturelli

Movements

computer art, Technology and Art

Filed under

Ideas
animation, community, education, institution building, research, Technology and Art, technology and society
Technologies
AR, computer art, Human-Computer Interaction
People
Suzete Venturelli
Works
Art and Technology
Organisations
MediaLab/UnB, University of Brasília
Places
Brasília, Brazil

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