L'art Génératif. Complements to the book text.

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1.6. The 1930's

See a lot of texts in Années 30 (in French).

Electronics and abstraction

1.6.1. Forerunners signs of digital generative art

The surrealists.
Max Ernst
Von Neumann
Fishinger has begun his experimental films in 1926, and will develop them up to the 1940's (forming the basis of some parts in the Disney's Fantasia film.

1.6.2. Music : radio and synthesizers

Thérémine
Ondes Martenot
Honegger
Messiaen

1.6.3. Massive generation

Social consequences of radio ("TSF", Télégraphie sans fil, in French at that time). Read (in French) a text by Simart.

A conference by Paul Valéry (february 1937).

1.6.4. Painting and archiectures : the keys by Klee

Klee pushes a little farther. See for instance Housez
Malevitch
Jean Gorin
Mondrian
Van Tongerloo
Futurisme
Kandinsky
Itten
Albers
Schillinger