Learn about the history of computer art.

A. Michael Noll and the Birth of Computer Art

How Bell Labs engineer A. Michael Noll made some of the first computer art in 1962, beat a Mondrian in a blind test, and influenced Dalí and Paik.

The Original Computer Art? Lissajous Figures Created with Oscilloscopes

Before artists used computers to make art, they used oscilloscopes.

Interdisciplinary, International: How computer art crossed borders in its first decade

How the early computer art collectives used collaborations to democratize creative practices.

Digital Art in the Age of Deep Learning

Luba Elliott explores how artists have responded to evolving concepts of what artificial intelligence is and does

The Lost Computer Art of South America

Most early computer artists worked out of Europe and the US. But there was a South American voice as well—one that is less understood and mostly unknown.

Collection Highlights

40 highlight works from the Ragnar Digital Collection of Computer Art

The History of Computer Art: Part One (1950-1969)

Early computer art, 1950-1969: what computer art is, how it began with oscilloscope art in 1950, and how artists used mainframes and plotters to make it.