Harold Cohen was one of the first to eschew the boundaries between machine intelligence and human creativity, with his work in the 1980s, created with a computer programme – AARON – designed to allow the artist to produce work independently. His adventures with code marked the beginning of a new era of digital art, which has since evolved to encompass interactive sculptures, artworks on paper created by plotter, and avant-garde generative art.
Now, a new exhibition traces this young history. ‘GEN/GEN: Generative Generations’ at Gazelli Art House in London considers the issue through work from Loren Bednar, Darien Brito, Sougwen Chung, Harold Cohen, Brendan Dawes, Ernest…