03: Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak

Episode page and full transcript: lerandom.art/episodes/timeline-chapter-3-analo…

The Le Random team of ⁠⁠thefunnyguys⁠⁠ (twitter.com/thefunnyguysNFT), Peter Bauman (⁠⁠Monk Antony⁠⁠ (twitter.com/MonkAntony_tez)) and Conrad House (⁠⁠Nemo Cake⁠⁠ (twitter.com/DlSPUTED)) spoke to special guest and acclaimed expert Georg Bak (twitter.com/SNOWCASH432) ⁠ (twitter.com/keyvass)about the foundational significance of the 1950s in generative art history: The Analog Era (timeline.lerandom.art/chapter/3).

This episode corresponds with:
• ⁠⁠Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 3⁠ (timeline.lerandom.art/chapter/3)

10 Significant Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)⁠
• 1951: MIT (lerandom.art/subjects/mit) and the US Navy First Demonstrate the Whirlwind Computer ( + 1954: Whirlwind and SAGE Initiatives by US Military Funding Spark Computing Innovations)

• 1952: Love-Letters by Christopher Strachey (lerandom.art/subjects/christopher-strachey) + 1959: Theo Lutz (lerandom.art/subjects/theo-lutz) produces Stochastic Texts

• 1952: Abstronic by Mary Ellen Bute (lerandom.art/subjects/mary-ellen-bute) + Electronic Abstractions by Ben Laposky (lerandom.art/subjects/ben-laposky)

• 1952: Birth of Neo-Dada + John Cage (lerandom.art/subjects/john-cage)’s Theater Piece No. 1 + 1957: Allan Kaprow (lerandom.art/subjects/allan-kaprow) Begins Making ‘Environments’ + 1950: Happenings

• 1953: Grace Murray Hopper Invents Programming Languages

• 1954: Victor Vasarely (lerandom.art/subjects/victor-vasarely)’s Yellow Manifesto Lays Generative Art's Conceptual Foundation

• 1956: CYSP by Nicolas Schöffer (lerandom.art/subjects/nicolas-schoffer)

• 1957: John Backus (lerandom.art/subjects/john-backus) Releases FORTRAN

• 1957: Max Mathews (lerandom.art/subjects/max-mathews) Develops MUSIC I

• 1958: John Whitney (lerandom.art/subjects/john-whitney) Makes First Computer Animation for Film Vertigo

Also in this episode: Georg Bak (lerandom.art/subjects/georg-bak), lerandom.art/subjects/thefunnyguys, Max Bense (lerandom.art/subjects/max-bense), Abraham Moles (lerandom.art/subjects/abraham-moles), Grace Hopper (lerandom.art/subjects/grace-hopper), Frieder Nake (lerandom.art/subjects/frieder-nake), Georg Nees (lerandom.art/subjects/georg-nees), Vera Molnár (lerandom.art/subjects/vera-molnar), IBM (lerandom.art/subjects/ibm), Noam Chomsky (lerandom.art/subjects/noam-chomsky)

Read next: Jason Bailey, Georg Bak & Kate Vass on the Art Form of Our Generation (lerandom.art/editorial/jason-bailey-georg-bak-…)

Listen next: Ep. 0, Elevating the Generative Art Space (Launch Episode) with Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter, Anika Meier & Georg Bak (lerandom.art/episodes/elevating-the-generative…), Ep. 2, Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass (lerandom.art/episodes/timeline-chapter-2-moder…)