Media Arts and Technology

Generative art is defined as any art that uses systems, such as software, natural language rules, machines, or other procedural inventions, which are used with some autonomy in order to create works of art (Galanter). These artworks balance the compressibility of order—such as symmetry and tiling—an...

Big Data, which entered public discourse in the early 2000s, “represents the ever-growing accumulation of diverse sets of information in digital form” (Legrady). Artists have embraced these vast datasets as raw material for creative exploration, visualizing information in innovative ways that commen...

The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. Taking place from October 1990 until April 2003, it generated the first sequence of the human genome. This accelerated humanity's understanding of human biology while also establishing new norms fo...

One of the most significant and contemporary qualities of computer-based art is its capacity to directly involve the viewer, granting them an active role in shaping the narrative. Three works that exemplify this idea are Lorna by Lynn Hershman Leeson, As Yet Untitled by Max Dean, and Videoplace by M...

Harold Cohen was a British-born artist who moved to San Diego in 1968 and later became a professor at UC San Diego. It was there that he developed his famous computer software, AARON - “a computer program designed to produce paintings and drawings autonomously, which sets it apart from previous prog...