01: Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz

Episode page and full transcript: lerandom.art/episodes/timeline-chapter-1-pre-m…

The Le Random team of twitter.com/thefunnyguysNFT, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony (twitter.com/MonkAntony_tez)) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake (twitter.com/DlSPUTED)) spoke to special guest Marius Watz (twitter.com/mariuswatz) about the ancient roots of generative art, the Pre-Modern Era.

This episode corresponds with:
• Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 1 (timeline.lerandom.art/chapter/1)
• Article: Timeline Chapter 1's Ten Top Moments (lerandom.art/editorial/timeline-chapter-1-ten-…)

10 Significant Pre-Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)
• Blombos Cave Drawing (70,000 BCE) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/blombos-cave-drawing)
• I Ching Introduces Binary Concept (1,000 BCE) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/i-ching-introduces-bin…)

• Euclid’s Elements (300 BCE) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/euclids-elements)
• Al-Khwārizmī’s Writes Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning (820 CE) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/al-khwarizmis-writes-c…)
• Albrecht Dürer Creates Engraving Melencolia I (1515) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/albrecht-durer-creates…)
• Gottfried Leibniz Pioneers Computational Thinking (1666) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/gottfried-leibniz-pion…)
• Johann Philip Kirnberger’s Musical Dice game (1757) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/johann-philip-kirnberg…)
• Joseph-Marie Jacquard Invents the Jacquard Loom (1804) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/joseph-marie-jacquard-…)
• Nicéphore Niépce Produces First Permanent Photograph (1826) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/nicephore-niepce-produ…)
• Ada Lovelace Becomes First Computer Programmer (1843) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/ada-lovelace-becomes-f…)

Also in this episode: Joshua Davis (lerandom.art/subjects/joshua-davis), Marius Watz (lerandom.art/subjects/marius-watz), lerandom.art/subjects/thefunnyguys, Ada Lovelace (lerandom.art/subjects/ada-lovelace), I Ching (lerandom.art/subjects/i-ching), Gottfried Leibniz (lerandom.art/subjects/gottfried-leibniz), Albrecht Dürer (lerandom.art/subjects/albrecht-durer), Euclid (lerandom.art/subjects/euclid), Hans Dehlinger (lerandom.art/subjects/hans-dehlinger), Vera Molnár (lerandom.art/subjects/vera-molnar)

Listen next: Ep. 10, Timeline Ch 7—Net Era (1990s) with Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Scott Draves & Vuk Ćosić (lerandom.art/episodes/timeline-chapter-7-net-e…), Ep. 3, Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak (lerandom.art/episodes/timeline-chapter-3-analo…)

On the Living Timeline: Joshua Davis releases ps0.praystation.v0 (1998) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/joshua-davis-releases-…), Marius Watz Begins generator.x Project (2005) (timeline.lerandom.art/m/marius-watz-begins-gen…)