Whether you like it or not, people are increasingly seeing art that was generated by computers. Everyone has an opinion about it, but researchers at the University of Vienna recently ran a small study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding and evaluating art has widely been considered as a task meant for humans, until now. Computer scientists Lior Shamir and Jane Tarakhovsky of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...

Get our guide to events and happenings in the SoCal arts scene. In your inbox every Monday and Friday morning. Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still ...

Harold Cohen, “74D10” (1974), computer-generated drawing in ink on paper, hand embellished with colored pencil, 21 x 17 inches (collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation; all photos Justin ...

In 1968, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London mounted “Cybernetic Serendipity,” the first major exhibition of cybernetic art—that is, art made with machines and computers, in particular. The ...

Computers and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly important in the art world. AI-generated artworks fetch millions at auction, and artists routinely use algorithms to create ...

In 2013, the artist Aram Bartholl installed a massive, red upside-down teardrop in Kassel, Germany. It was designed to look like a pin from Google Maps. While Google Maps is a digital representation ...

I was the lead of a team of computer scientists at Rutgers that published a paper this past August titled, "Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence." In that paper we reported on our research ...

Last month I posted some pics of an exhibition I attended at Camberwell art college of some interesting ceramics of degraded computers and mice. I received this reply from the artist - Jehan E. Haddad ...