Whether you like it or not, people are increasingly seeing art that was generated by computers. Everyone has an opinion about it, but researchers at the University of Vienna recently ran a small study ...
An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques. Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), computer-generated ...
“Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,” an exhibition gathering 100 works that illustrate how artistic practices shifted with the emergence of computer technology beginning in the 1950s, opens at the ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.” By Chris Kornelis Lillian ...
How has technology impacted art? Despite at our core being predisposed toward art, it hasn’t been a possibility for the layperson to engage and make their own. Consider the costs of things like ...
Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...
Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), computer-generated drawing in ink on paper, hand embellished with colored pencil, 21 x 17 inches (collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation; all photos Justin ...