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 ...

In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) commissioned the artist Lillian Schwartz to create a public service announcement to advertise the opening of its newly renovated galleries. Her 30-second video ...

Latent spaces are abstract, high-dimensional areas within neural networks where patterns and relationships are encoded, but not readily interpretable by humans. Although latent space studies are still ...

“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 ...

Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still new to California, I had heard about an artist working with computer programming to make experimental drawings ...

Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

In the early 1960s, Lee Mullican, the San Franciscan artist best known for his modernist abstractions, swapped his paintbrush for the printer’s ink knife. Using its thin edge, he would apply paint to ...

'What is digital art?' might seem a question with a simple answer, right? It's art that's created using electronic tools and systems rather than traditional media like pen on paper, paint on a canvas ...

The age of computers has brought about the rise and fall of countless industries – and the creative sphere has been among those most affected. Computer-generated imaging has become the animation ...

In 1964, only one mainframe computer existed on Ohio State’s campus. Alongside processors, chords and drum plotters, the computer sat in its own room. It was in a space typically occupied by engineers ...