Joan Shogren graduated with her degree in chemistry from California’s San José State University (SJSU) in the early 1950s, and began working as a secretary in the department. It was there that she ...

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 ...

“Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,” an exhibition gathering 100 works that illustrate how artistic practices shifted with the emergence of computer technology beginning in the 1950s, opens at the ...

An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques. Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), computer-generated ...

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 ...

*The late Andy Cameron once told me that he thought that early computer-art efforts, because of their constraints, were more graphically and formally interesting than most contemporary ones. Well, why ...