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Sample of Computer-Aided Painting (Schwartz)

Computer-Aided Painting (Schwartz)

generative_pioneers_2 · lillian_schwartz

Lillian Schwartz, who worked at Bell Labs from 1968 to 2001 with Kenneth C.

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Sample of Hypertransformations (Molnár)

Hypertransformations (Molnár)

generative_pioneers_2 · molnar_hypertransformations

Vera Molnár's 'Hypertransformations' (1974-1976), executed on the IBM 360 with a CRT 2250 display and output on a Benson plotter.

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Sample of P-159 D (Mohr)

P-159 D (Mohr)

generative_pioneers_2 · mohr_p159d

Manfred Mohr's 'P-159 D' (1969, Vincennes) sits in the P-159 family that the artist developed from his earlier P-021 / P-036 line-arrangement programs.

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Sample of Raster Sequence (Nake)

Raster Sequence (Nake)

generative_pioneers_2 · nake_raster_sequence

Frieder Nake's 'Walk-through-Raster' / 'Raster Sequence' (1966) is the first non-stationary Markov chain in computer art history.

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Sample of Structure Computer (Cohen / AARON)

Structure Computer (Cohen / AARON)

generative_pioneers_2 · cohen_structure_computer

Harold Cohen's AARON, begun at UCSD in 1967-1973 and continuously developed until Cohen's death in 2016, is the longest-running art-making AI in history.

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Sample of Text Rain (Utterback & Achituv)

Text Rain (Utterback & Achituv)

generative_pioneers_2 · utterback_text_rain

Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv's 'Text Rain' (1999) is one of the canonical interactive installations of the late-1990s computer-vision era, and the piece that won them a US patent (US 6,928,313) in 2005.

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Sample of Wall Drawings (LeWitt)

Wall Drawings (LeWitt)

generative_pioneers_2 · sol_lewitt_wall_drawings

Sol LeWitt's wall drawings (1968-2007) are the canonical example of conceptual-art-as-algorithm: the work is the set of written instructions, and any number of draftspeople can execute them with different results that all satisfy the same rule.

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