Whether you like it or not, people are increasingly seeing art that was generated by computers. Everyone has an opinion about it, but researchers at the University of Vienna recently ran a small study ...

Joan Shogren graduated with her degree in chemistry from California’s San José State University (SJSU) in the early 1950s, and began working as a secretary in the department. It was there that she ...

In 1984, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) commissioned the artist Lillian Schwartz to create a public service announcement to advertise the opening of its newly renovated galleries. Her 30-second video ...

Should we look at digital, computer-generated artwork in the same way we evaluate performative happenings? Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies?

“Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,” an exhibition gathering 100 works that illustrate how artistic practices shifted with the emergence of computer technology beginning in the 1950s, opens at the ...

I was the lead of a team of computer scientists at Rutgers that published a paper this past August titled, "Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence." In that paper we reported on our research ...

For many people, the robot-populated future is a zero-sum game; it’s either going to be us or them running things. Headlines — and not just on conspiracy theory websites — are rife with dire ...

Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still new to California, I had heard about an artist working with computer programming to make experimental drawings ...

The human first plays a short tune, and the computer follows up with a longer variation of the tune. Is the computer-generated melody an original piece of music? Is it art? At the music and technology ...

In 2013, the artist Aram Bartholl installed a massive, red upside-down teardrop in Kassel, Germany. It was designed to look like a pin from Google Maps. While Google Maps is a digital representation ...

A classic photograph, a revered painting … just two examples of human genius that no machine could ever match. Or COULD it? Here's David Pogue: For years, the common wisdom about robots was that ...