Tag: Harold Cohen

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

From a dress made from 200 lightbulbs to works made by computer, the Tate takes us on a dizzying, dense trip through half a century of electrically augmented art, fretted with optimism for a future that never came
Infinite Variety: Harold Cohen and Cybernetics in the 1960s

On the occasion of a show of Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the pioneering British artist’s transition from paint to code
Harold Cohen: AARON

Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for creating art, conceived by the pioneering British painter Harold Cohen
Leslie Jones – interview: ‘I wanted to recontextualise the material, not to remarginalise it, by looking at it again “in its moment””

Jones, the curator behind the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s much-anticipated exhibition of early works from the computer age, explains her vision for the project
Harold Cohen: The AARON Retrospective

Could one human’s lifetime of artistic knowledge be encoded? That is what Cohen set out to discover when he began work on what would become the AARON computer program
Casey Reas – interview: ‘There is an increased understanding that software is central to our lives’

Reas is known as the man who helped to create the open-source programming language Processing and brought coding within the grasp of visual artists. Here, he talks about how his work has changed over the course of his career and…
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers

This beautifully curated display includes work from the pioneers of digital art of the 1950s and 60s through to the younger generations practising today
Paul Brown: Process, Chance and Serendipity: Art That Makes Itself

These radical works by Paul Brown highlight the wonders of computer programming in the realm of art-making
Harold Cohen: ‘I was probably the only person who considered the computer to be potentially an autonomous art-making entity’

Pioneer of computer art Harold Cohen died last year at the age of 87. In 2015, in one of the last interviews of his life, he talked to Studio International about his long career
Delving into coding: the art of Harold Cohen

Harold Cohen, who developed Aaron, one of the first and most complex software programs for computer-generated art, died last year at the age of 87. We look back at his achievements