Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1974

The Bat-Sheva-Seminar on the Interaction of Art and Science

Exhibition · West Asia

Vladimir Bonačić — who organised the Bat-Sheva Seminar in Jerusalem the previous year — at a computer terminal in his 1975 solo exhibition at The Israel Museum, his light objects glowing behind him.
Vladimir Bonačić — who organised the Bat-Sheva Seminar in Jerusalem the previous year — at a computer terminal in his 1975 solo exhibition at The Israel Museum, his light objects glowing behind him. Still from the 8 mm film documenting Vladimir Bonačić's one-man exhibition at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1975. Via Monoskop.

Organized in Jerusalem by the computer artist Vladimir Bonačić, a member of Leonardo’s editorial advisory board, the seminar was attended by Jonathan Benthall, Herbert W. Franke, Frank Joseph Malina, Abraham A. Moles, A. Michael Noll and John Whitney.

The aim of the twelve-day seminar, held 3 to 14 November 1974, was to promote lasting international cooperation in the field of computer art. Due to political events, only the first iteration was pursued.

Listen to Peter Bauman’s interview with A. Michael Noll (transcript).

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

Sources

People

A. Michael Noll, Abraham Moles, Frank Malina, Herbert W. Franke, John Whitney, Jonathan Benthall, Vladimir Bonačić

Movements

computer art

Filed under

Ideas
art and science, collaboration, geopolitics
Technologies
computer art, cybernetics
People
A. Michael Noll, Abraham Moles, Frank Malina, Herbert W. Franke, John Whitney, Jonathan Benthall, Vladimir Bonačić
Works
Abraham
Organisations
Bat-Sheva Seminar on the Interaction of Art and Science, Leonardo (journal)
Places
Israel, Jerusalem

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