From code to canvas
The million-dollar pixel
Beyond the frame
YOUR GOAL
Master of How screens became blue-chip art
andy From code to canvas
Pixels on the auction block! (Yeah, we're going blue chip!) / A digital collage makes history! (Oh, it's art on a screen!)
andy In the 1990s, artists used the internet itself as a medium, creating interactive websites that challenged traditional galleries.
andy British artist Harold Cohen spent decades developing AARON, a computer program that independently created physical drawings.
Early computer art: In 1965, the first public exhibition of computer-generated art was held in Germany, featuring algorithmic drawings by mathematician Georg Nees.
Art created through the use of an autonomous system, typically a computer algorithm. In 2001, Casey Reas co-developed the Processing language to make this computer-based medium accessible to designers.
In 1965, mathematician Georg Nees held the first public exhibition of computer-generated art in which country?
Why did traditional art galleries find early 1990s net.art incredibly difficult to sell?
What programming language, created in 1995, allowed early digital artists to add animations and interactivity to web pages?
Which major New York museum launched a preservation initiative in 2001 to save early web-based art?
What physical tool did early computer artists use to draw digital designs onto paper using a physical pen?
What was the name of the painting software developed by Harold Cohen starting in 1973?
In which decade did Hungarian pioneer Vera Molnár begin using mainframe computers to create geometric art?