L'art Génératif. Complements to the book text.
Return to summmary. See Index

1. History

See our index of digital artists by periods

See our general digital art history. The English version is in progress. The French one is coherent but not updated since 6/1/2012.

Prehistory

The first generative art work ? A carved stone on the Blombos site. From the NSF website.

The Blombos carved stones

On the emergence of wrigint, read Les premières cités et la naissance de l'écriture, edited by Pascal Vernus. Actes Sud, 2011).

- Digitizing efforts emerge in Aegyptian art.
- Canons, from grids to proportions, read [Panofsky, 1969].

An aegyptian grid canon, according to John Legon.