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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, only one mainframe computer existed on Ohio State’s campus. Alongside processors, chords and drum plotters, the computer sat in its own room. It was in a space typically occupied by engineers ...

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 ...

'What is digital art?' might seem a question with a simple answer, right? It's art that's created using electronic tools and systems rather than traditional media like pen on paper, paint on a canvas ...

Using a 1984-era Macintosh 128K and various retro tools, Pinot W. Ichwandardi painstakingly crafted a beautiful pixel art drawing of one of New York City’s most stunning skyscrapers. Ichwandardi ...

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 ...

There’s a sense of excitement around Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, now open at the Tate Modern, for a number of reasons. First, it’s one of the first major exhibitions to ...