We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ethernet. We’re teaming up ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

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 ...

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.” By Chris Kornelis Lillian ...

The Apple I computer, in a prototype metal case, that founder Steve Jobs used as a demo model and which was taken from a shelf in his office in 1985. (Living Computers Photo) The Living Computers: ...

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?

David G. Stork is an adjunct professor at Stanford University in California, an honorary professor at University College London and a visiting fellow at the Warburg Institute in London. He is the ...