The History of Computer Art
summary
Original "Hello World" artifact sells for $88,000, early experiments run on an IBM 1790 at Bell Labs where Michael Noll’s buggy Fortran output prompts the term computer art while Desmond Paul Henry’s WWII analog plotters already make fractal-like prints. Examples include plotter recreations of Paul Klee motifs, Harold Cohen’s Aaron evolving from 1978 black‑and‑white drawings to faces by 1988, Brian Eno’s 2007 self‑generating 77 million paintings, Corey Arcangel’s modified Super Mario cartridge, jodi.com (1993) and Joseph Deapp’s GTA5 elegy livestream hitting ~14,730 deaths in a year.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction to code art
- 1:11The pioneers at Bell Labs
- 4:02Desmond Paul Henry's legacy
- 5:40Early imitations and studies
- 9:00European artistic movements
- 11:29Vera Molnár's contributions
- 15:26Motion in computer art
- 16:51Harold Cohen and AARON
- 20:00Brian Eno's generative art
- 21:40Conceptual digital art
- 23:40The web as an art medium
- 27:00Art as social commentary
- 29:36Hacker ethics and surveillance
- 31:42Source code as art
- 35:02Self-modifying programs
- 38:09The NFT and algorithmic era
- 41:36Speculation and AI bubbles
- 43:35The changing web landscape
- 45:23AI portraits and biases
- 48:59Disrupting data sets
- 51:37Humanity in the age of AI
