The Le Random team of ⁠⁠thefunnyguys⁠⁠, Peter Bauman (⁠⁠Monk Antony⁠⁠) and Conrad House (⁠⁠Nemo Cake⁠⁠) spoke to special guest and acclaimed expert Georg Bak ⁠about the foundational significance of the 1950s in generative art history: The Analog Era.

This episode corresponds with:

⁠⁠Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 3⁠


10 Significant Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)⁠


1951: MIT and the US Navy First Demonstrate the Whirlwind Computer ( + 1954: Whirlwind and SAGE Initiatives by US Military Funding Spark Computing Innovations)

1952: Love-Letters by Christopher Strachey + 1959: Theo Lutz produces Stochastic Texts

1952: Abstronic by Mary Ellen Bute + Electronic Abstractions by Ben Laposky

1952: Birth of Neo-Dada + John Cage’s Theater Piece No. 1 + 1957: Allan Kaprow Begins Making ‘Environments’ + 1950: Happenings

1953: Grace Murray Hopper Invents Programming Languages

1954: Victor Vasarely’s Yellow Manifesto Lays Generative Art's Conceptual Foundation

1956: CYSP by Nicolas Schöffer

1957: John Backus Releases FORTRAN

1957: Max Mathews Develops MUSIC I

1958: John Whitney Makes First Computer Animation for Film Vertigo