The Le Random team of thefunnyguys, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake) spoke to special guest Marius Watz about the ancient roots of generative art, the Pre-Modern Era.
This episode corresponds with:
Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 1
Article: Timeline Chapter 1's Ten Top Moments10 Significant Pre-Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)
Blombos Cave Drawing (70,000 BCE)
I Ching Introduces Binary Concept (1,000 BCE)
Euclid’s Elements (300 BCE)
Al-Khwārizmī’s Writes Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning (820 CE)
Albrecht Dürer Creates Engraving Melencolia I (1515)
Gottfried Leibniz Pioneers Computational Thinking (1666)
Johann Philip Kirnberger’s Musical Dice game (1757)
Joseph-Marie Jacquard Invents the Jacquard Loom (1804)
Nicéphore Niépce Produces First Permanent Photograph (1826)
Ada Lovelace Becomes First Computer Programmer (1843)