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 ...

In 2013, the artist Aram Bartholl installed a massive, red upside-down teardrop in Kassel, Germany. It was designed to look like a pin from Google Maps. While Google Maps is a digital representation ...

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 ...

Get our guide to events and happenings in the SoCal arts scene. In your inbox every Monday and Friday morning. Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still ...

As I walked to my art history class, a poster hanging in the Diag read, “What will you do when machines do everything?” Carrying in my mind all of the impressionist paintings I had to memorize for ...

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I was the lead of a team of computer scientists at Rutgers that published a paper this past August titled, "Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence." In that paper we reported on our research ...

Some creators delegate decisions to computers, data sets, or even random variables. An intriguing combination of programmers, artists, and philosophers, these creators embrace a process that delegates ...

The subject of this piece is computer art, and I wish I could say nothing but nasty things about it. The impulse is almost irresistible to put down cybernetic art as so much mathematical doodling, ...

I was the lead of a team of computer scientists at Rutgers that published a paper this past August titled, “Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence.” In that paper we reported on our research ...