NDC Party: A Brief History of Computer Art
summary
Signed 1978 "hello world" print sells for $8,500 and 1960s Bell Labs engineers turn a Fortran plotter print into the first computer art; mechanical analog bombsite machines in Britain produce spirals; AARON the program produces black‑and‑white drawings in 1978 and full‑color works by the late 1980s — AARON draws in ink; a Ruby quine rotates a globe each run; a Python "virus" prints reproductive metaphors; GANs produce the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy that sells for $450k while a GTA mod streams a live tally that reaches 14,730 simulated killings.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Computer art history intro
- 1:171960s computer art pioneers
- 3:481950s British analog art
- 7:261970s European computer art
- 10:10Vera Molnár's approach
- 12:20VanDerBeek's animations
- 13:49Harold Cohen and Aaron
- 16:19Eno's generative art
- 17:43Cory Archangel's reinterpretations
- 19:12Early web art interfaces
- 21:19DeLappe's political art
- 23:25Radical Software Group critique
- 24:51Code as art
- 26:40Programming quines
- 28:06NFT art and Warhol
- 29:38LeWitt's instructions
- 31:02Ridler's tulip bubble
- 32:50Leulea's web history
- 34:17AI portraits at auction
- 36:25AI tapestry of Bergen
- 37:53Elwes' queer AI drag
- 40:02AI versus classical art
- 45:01Closing thoughts
