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

The Le Random team of ⁠⁠thefunnyguys⁠⁠, Peter Bauman (⁠⁠Monk Antony⁠⁠) and Conrad House (⁠⁠Nemo Cake⁠⁠) spoke to special guest and acclaimed expert Georg Bak ⁠about the foundational significance of the 1950s in generative art history: The Analog Era.



This episode corresponds with:


⁠⁠Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 3⁠



10 Significant Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)⁠



1951: 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 + 1959: Theo Lutz produces Stochastic Texts


1952: Abstronic by Mary Ellen Bute + Electronic Abstractions by Ben Laposky


1952: Birth of Neo-Dada + John Cage’s Theater Piece No. 1 + 1957: Allan Kaprow Begins Making ‘Environments’ + 1950: Happenings


1953: Grace Murray Hopper Invents Programming Languages


1954: Victor Vasarely’s Yellow Manifesto Lays Generative Art's Conceptual Foundation


1956: CYSP by Nicolas Schöffer


1957: John Backus Releases FORTRAN


1957: Max Mathews Develops MUSIC I


1958: John Whitney Makes First Computer Animation for Film Vertigo