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

1987

The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and Computer at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Exhibition · North America

The front cover of the exhibition catalogue for The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and The Computer, its title set in white above a graduated colour panel on a black ground.
The front cover of the exhibition catalogue for The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and The Computer, its title set in white above a graduated colour panel on a black ground. Cover of The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and The Computer (New York: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1987). Experimental Television Center collection, Internet Archive.

Curated by Luis R. Cancel, the entire catalog for this exhibition can mercifully be found online in its entirety. The exhibition, according to the catalog, sought “to capture the extent to which computers are being utilized as creative tools by visual artists.”

The exhibition featured the work of artists such as David Em, Mark Wilson, Manfred Mohr, Margot Lovejoy,

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

Sources

People

David Em, Luis R. Cancel, Manfred Mohr, Margot Lovejoy, Mark Wilson

Movements

computer art

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Ideas
tools
Technologies
computer art
People
David Em, Luis R. Cancel, Manfred Mohr, Margot Lovejoy, Mark Wilson
Works
Artist and Computer, David
Exhibitions
The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and Computer
Organisations
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Places
New York, The Bronx

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