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:
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
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