Latent spaces are abstract, high-dimensional areas within neural networks where patterns and relationships are encoded, but not readily interpretable by humans. Although latent space studies are still ...
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 ...
In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) commissioned the artist Lillian Schwartz to create a public service announcement to advertise the opening of its newly renovated galleries. Her 30-second video ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
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 ...
Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...
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 ...
An Emmy-nominated, Beijing-born, New York-based multimedia motion graphics designer and art director, Lulu Jiang (MFA 2016 Computer Art) has carved out a dynamic career for herself ever since ...
In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen a monumental shift in the way we process media – at least, that’s what I’ve heard. I was part of the first generation to face my “formative years” with a ...
In the early 1960s, Lee Mullican, the San Franciscan artist best known for his modernist abstractions, swapped his paintbrush for the printer’s ink knife. Using its thin edge, he would apply paint to ...
For the last century or so, Western aesthetic discourse has dedicated significant energy to form and composition. It’s an unconscious bias embedded into the foundations of our thought since ancient ...