But Snell’s piece was not only designed by an algorithm (more on that later). It’s actually made of the ground-up dust of the computer that created it. [Image: courtesy Ben Snell] After Snell wrote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Leavitt Fallon, an artist who explored computers as a form of self expression more than 50 years ago and who was recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...

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 ...

July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Should we look at digital, computer-generated artwork in the same way we evaluate performative happenings? Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies?

Ruth Leavitt Fallon, an artist who explored computers as a form of self expression more than 50 years ago and who was recently recognized for her pioneering work, died of a thoracic aortic aneurysm ...