The Tools of Generative Art, from Flash to Neural Networks

Notes

Art in America, January 2020, pp. 34–41, where it ran in print under the title "Doing Things with Computers." Traces generative art through its tools — Flash, Processing, neural networks — and opens on Sougwen Chung with D.O.U.G._1. Quotes Grace Hertlein on the hostility she met in the late 1960s and John Canaday's 1970 New York Times dismissal of computer art as "popular sideshows."