Generative art may have its roots in Dada artists in the early 20e century, but artist Harold Cohen is considered the pioneer of the technology-based genre. He became one of the first practitioners of automated art when he built a code machine capable of producing figurative paintings. In the lateRead More →
Portrait Harold Cohen © Estate of Harold Cohen. Gazelli Art House has announced the representation of British-born artist Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) who influentially created AARON, a computer program incrementally designed to produce art from code. With a career evolving during a crucial period of technological development, the artistRead More →
After graduating, he enrolled in a five-year engineering physics program at Cornell University. In 1953, he obtained his baccalaureate and two years later, he obtained his master’s degree in the same field. At Cornell, Knowlton first developed his love for computers, and he continued his studies at MIT, where inRead More →
Dr. Knowlton remained at Bell Labs until 1982, experimenting with everything from computer-generated music to technologies that allowed deaf people to read sign language over the telephone. He then joined Wang Laboratories, where in the late 1980s he helped develop a personal computer that allowed users to annotate documents withRead More →
Credit: Vera Molnár, Icône 2020 (detail), 2021, Murano glass and 24K gold leaf, 60 x 60 cm, photo by Cristiano Corte ©, Courtesy New Murano Gallery. A stunning new exhibition linking computer-made paintings to the ancient tradition of glassmaking is part of a major new quest to document, exhibit andRead More →
Charles Csuri, whose experiments with computers in the 1960s made him a key figure in the history of digital art, has died aged 99. An announcement from Ohio State University in Columbus, where Csuri had long served as a professor of arts education and computer science. , said he diedRead More →
In December 1964, during a single night session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded the entire supreme love. This jazz album is considered Coltrane’s masterpiece – the culmination of his spiritual awakening – and has sold a million copies. What it represents is all tooRead More →