Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1987
The Interactive Image at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Held by the Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the show lasted in installments from 1987 until 1989. A SIGGRAPH 2017 paper looked back at this event and highlighted the importance of the show in retrospect.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Garcia Bravo, Esteban, Andres Burbano, Vetria L. Byrd and Angus G. Forbes. "The Interactive Image: A Media Archaeology Approach." Leonardo 50, no. 4 (2017): 373.
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- interactivity
- Technologies
- computer art
- Exhibitions
- The Interactive Image
- Organisations
- Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), SIGGRAPH, University of Illinois Chicago
- Places
- Chicago
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 2013 · Summer by Olia Lialina
- 1962 · The Open Work by Umberto Eco
- 1963 · Roy Ascott’s First Show: Diagram-boxes and Analogue Structures