Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1967
The Science of Art by Robert E. Mueller
The book voices the growing sense amongst some artists that science was encroaching upon the art world. It represented the art community’s backlash against computer-generated art, lampooning the movement for “aesthetic ineptitude,” according to Grant Taylor.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Grant Taylor, WMMA 35
People
Grant Taylor, Robert E. Mueller
Movements
computer art, Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- art and science, art criticism, community, Technology and Art
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- Grant Taylor, Robert E. Mueller
- Works
- The Science of Art
Echoes across time
- 1983 · Portrait of the Artist As a Young Computer by Grace Glueck
- 1980 · David Topper and John H. Holloway, Interrelationships between the Visual Arts, Science and Technology: A Bibliography
- 1984 · Art and the Computer by Melvin Prueitt
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll — listen with transcript on Le Random (07 Sep 2023, 60 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter — listen with transcript on Le Random (21 Sep 2023, 77 min). Chapter 4’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify