Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)
1975
Untitled Computer Assisted Drawing by Paul Brown
Displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 2018 exhibition, Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers, Brown’s work is composed of black linear forms or “tiles” on a white background, showing how simple forms can combine to create dense patterns. Brown studied at London’s Slade School of Fine Art, in the Experimental and Computing Department established by Malcolm Hughes.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- pattern
- Technologies
- computer art, computer-generated drawings
- People
- Malcolm Hughes, Paul Brown
- Exhibitions
- Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers
- Organisations
- Experimental and Computing Department, Slade, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
- Places
- England, London
Related moments
- 1973 · Malcolm Hughes Establishes Experimental Department at the Slade
- 2018 · Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers at the V&A
Echoes across time
- 1958 · A. P. Rich Writes Program for the Design of Wave Patterns for Textiles
- 500 BCE · Pythagoras Popularizes Geometric Patterns
- 1951 · Edmund C. Berkeley Begins Publishing Computers and Automation
Le Random editorials
- London Digital Art Guide, Le Random & guests, October 13, 2025
- Colette Bangert on Growing Visually, Peter Bauman, May 7, 2024
- Demystifying Generative Art, Peter Bauman, July 20, 2023
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Chapter 5’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify