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03: Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak


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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)⁠

      1. 1951: MIT and the US Navy First Demonstrate the Whirlwind Computer ( + 1954: Whirlwind and SAGE Initiatives by US Military Funding Spark Computing Innovations)

      2. 1952: Love-Letters by Christopher Strachey + 1959: Theo Lutz produces Stochastic Texts

      3. 1952: Abstronic by Mary Ellen Bute + Electronic Abstractions by Ben Laposky

      4. 1952: Birth of Neo-Dada + John Cage’s Theater Piece No. 1 + 1957: Allan Kaprow Begins Making ‘Environments’ + 1950: Happenings

      5. 1953: Grace Murray Hopper Invents Programming Languages

      6. 1954: Victor Vasarely’s Yellow Manifesto Lays Generative Art's Conceptual Foundation

      7. 1956: CYSP by Nicolas Schöffer

      8. 1957: John Backus Releases FORTRAN

      9. 1957: Max Mathews Develops MUSIC I

      10. 1958: John Whitney Makes First Computer Animation for Film Vertigo

      11. ...more
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